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TIL Mongol leader Genghis Khan never allowed anyone to paint his portrait, sculpt his image or engrave his likeness on a coin. The first images of him appeared after his death.

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Z8kPa TIL that Courland (located in present day Latvia) briefly colonized the island of Tobago in the Caribbeans, making it the only Baltic colony in the Americas.
E18pw TIL 33% of millennials buy their first house to give their dog more space, compared to just 19% for a new baby.
KLmw TIL that in 2001, while making Queen Elizabeth’s new Jaguar bomb-proof, pornography and a swastika were found under a seat panel. This was done to cars at the company commonly as tradition, because they were never meant to actually be found.
ZXXa TIL that mosquitoes are the single largest human killers. Second only to humans.
Eg6nP TIL Hiram Bingham wasn’t the first to rediscover Machu Picchu. Peruvian farmer and explorer Agustín Lizárraga had arrived 9 yrs earlier, leaving an inscription "A. Lizárraga 1902." Sadly, he died one year after Bingham’s arrival, and his inscription was erased by Bingham for "preservation reasons."