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TIL that a cigarette lit in frustration by a Swiss physicist led to the accidental invention of modern smoke detectors.

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KejJ TIL that there are only 4 recorded instances of people being killed by orcas, all by captive whales - and 3 of the deaths involved the same whale, Tilikum.
ANOYl TIL: The descendants of Genghis Khan (1162 — 25 August 1227) continued to rule parts of Central Asia for 700 years until the 1920s, when they were conquered by the Bolsheviks and their states became part of the Soviet Union.
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