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TIL Mongol successfully invaded Russia in the winter

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d84OK TIL the 1992 Olympics US basketball team (the "Dream Team") won all of their games by an average of 44 points. They have been called "the most dominant squad ever assembled in any sport."
gMx68 TIL that the Lotus Bridge between left-lane-driving Macau and right-lane-driving China allows for traffic to seamlessly switch the side of the road that they are driving on at the border.
Yy7P TIL Japan imports rice from the U.S. as required by the World Trade Organization, but almost none of it ever actually reaches Japanese dinner plates. Instead, the imported rice is donated to North Korea, fed to pigs, or left to rot in vast Japanese warehouses, sitting in storage for years.
8eYZ4 TIL Roman Emperor Diocletian was the first to voluntarily retire in 305 AD to grow cabbages. When begged to return to power, he declined, saying "If you could see the vegetables I grow with my own hands, you wouldn’t talk to me about empire." He lived out his days gardening by the Dalmatian coast
epmJk TIL Timothy Olyphant is a direct descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a business magnate in the 1800s credited as being one of the wealthiest Americans to ever live.