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TIL Genghis Khan Cooled the Planet by Wiping Out 11% Of The World’s Population, He depopulated so much land that giant forests grew up and scrubbed about 700million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.

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yVbrJ TIL in 1900 William Schmidt, a gold miner, began hand-digging a half-mile tunnel in the Mojave Desert to transport ore for processing. After 20 years the ore could easily be transported on a new road, but Schmidt spent another two decades years finishing the tunnel, which was never used.
VMGe4 TIL "the cone of shame" for pets is technically called an "elizabethan collar"
jNpDv TIL that the largest Masonic Temple in the world, the Detroit Masonic Temple, was saved from foreclosure in 2013 by Jack White of the White Stripes. White paid off $142,000 owed in back taxes by the Temple due to the fact that it had given his mother a job as an usher when she was in need.
e0OJ5 TIL about chain boats. The boats traveled along a chain submerged in a river and pulled barges to transport goods.
6EbV7 TIL that Gandhi left his Indian wife to have a homo-erotic relationship with German-Jewish bodybuilder named Hermann Kallenbach.