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TIL: The descendants of Genghis Khan (1162 — 25 August 1227) continued to rule parts of Central Asia for 700 years until the 1920s, when they were conquered by the Bolsheviks and their states became part of the Soviet Union.

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p8EJZ TIL At 10 years old and while still in elementary school, Warren Buffett started having lunch meetings with a New York Stock Exchange member. He bought his first stock at age 11. Today, he’s worth $80 billion.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
6EvMw TIL the "bell" at the beginning of Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" isn't actually a bell toll, but an anvil being hit by a hammer
KYpJ TIL that a big group of women in the Ukraine have formed a modern amazon tribe called Asgarda. Their goal is to have complete autonomy from men, they train in different martial arts and sciences, and live in the Carpathian Mountains.
DVLD TIL in WWII the Germans used “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”: They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened.