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TIL Ghengis Khan Decreed Religious Freedom And Members Of Suppressed Religions Helped Him Overthrow Their Own Governments

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NXaaM TIL Minecraft (2009) was inducted in the Video Game Hall of Fame in 2020, along with Bejewled (2001), King’s Quest (1984), & Centipede (1980). This makes it the first game from the Seventh Generation of video game consoles (2005-13), which includes the PS3, Xbox 360, & Nintendo Wii, to be inducted.
Re57 TIL there were so many overdubs during the recording of “Bohemian Rhapsody” that the magnetic tape used to record the song became virtually transparent.
l7D7A TIL Leon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin, the instrument that makes eerie sounds and is played without being touched, also invented a device which is considered a predecessor of the RFID technology
J1lLl TIL in 2012, over 2,000 Koreans gathered to watch a single man pitch a tent (a 24-man army tent) after he claimed on an internet forum that he could do it in under two hours. The event grew so large it even attracted corporate sponsers. The man succeeded, taking about an hour to accomplish the task.
RVOl TIL Between 1964 and 1996, the People’s Republic of China conducted 46 nuclear tests in East Turkestan, the homeland of millions of Uyghurs. Some of the bombs were 300 times more powerful than the one exploded in Hiroshima.