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TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.

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BgdVx TIL About The New London School Explosion, 294 lives lost to odorless natural gas. The US took action 33 years later by requiring natural gas to be detectable. Companies added Mercaptan to odorize the gas. This was being done in Europe as early as the 1880s.
8rlK TIL During the Revolutionary War in 1782, militia soldiers intercepted a consignment destined for the King of England. It was found to contain over 900 settler’s scalps taken by Seneca Indians allied with the British - 29 of which were taken from infants.
911D TIL a guy upset with his then girlfriend for not properly mourning his father’s death hatched a plan to marry and conceive a child and then kill it later after the wife had bonded with it. He was convicted for murdering the 7 month old.
xVkWB TIL Actress Hayley Atwell got her drivers licence photo taken in full ''Peggy Carter'' makeup.
woJaW TIL that one the oldest types of cheese is Callu de Cabreddu. It’s made by taking the stomach out of freshly slaughtered youg goat, while still full of it’s mothers milk, tying it and letting it hang to dry and age.