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TIL That O.J. Simpson was going to be the Terminator, but was cut because the director couldn’t imagine him as a ruthless killer.

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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.
K5VQ TIL that the gravitational pull of the earth had deformed the moon towards being the shape of a lemon.
x6rwb TIL there is a Titanic monument in DC, funded by women, to honor the men of the Titanic who died so that women and children could live. Only 20% of men survived, while over 70% of women and children made it.
6ER6m TIL about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director, one of the first directors of a narrative fiction film, and the director of the first film with an all-African-American cast. After she retired, she tried to rectify her absence from the historical record and get credit for her works.
wLRJo TIL that in 1216 Prince Louis of France invaded England and was proclaimed King of England with the support of many English nobles. Eventually the English changed their minds and paid him to agree that he had never actually been king, so Louis doesn't appear in any official list of Kings of England.