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TIL the Indian city of Aurangabad was founded by an African immigrant named Malik Ambar in 1610 who was a freed slave and had become the Prime Minister of the Deccan Sultanate

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YpLYx TIL After uniting Mongol tribes under one banner, Genghis Khan actually did not want any more war. To open up trade, Genghis Khan sent emissaries to Muhammad II of Khwarezm, but Khwarezm Empire killed the Mongolian party. Furious Genghis Khan demolished Khwarezmian Empire in two years.
V8W4 TIL 1 in 10 inhabitants on the island of Pingelap is color blind due to a ‘population bottleneck’ in 1775 after a catastrophic typhoon swept through the remote island leaving only 20 survivors. One of the survivors was King Nanmwarki Mwanenihsed, patient 0 with the rare Achromatopsia gene.
9Dep TIL that the reason why 1 horsepower seems so small compared to the actual power of a horse is that it factors in the time that horses need to rest.
Y78ax TIL One of the earliest archaeological evidence for Confucius' Analects comes from a tombsite dating to ca. 50 BC. in Pyongyang, which was discovered from an accidental leak in 2003. North Korea never released Pyongyang Analects and the other ancient text in China was damaged by fire
PYvVO TIL that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield have two species of spiders named after them - Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi.