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TIL that half of all human deaths from the beginning of time can be attributed to malaria

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Me5LV TIL the Chinese city of Fancheng held out for nearly 6 years against the Mongols - until Kublai Khan's nephew sent him Muslim engineers from Iran that built counterweight trebuchets, with a range of 1,600 ft. and launching projectiles weighing 660 lbs. The city fell within a few days.
KOxeQ TIL: Pringles were reduced in size and weight significantly when US manufacturing was exported to Asia (which might help explain why you can't fit your hand in there Bo)
GNBJ TIL that Robert Downey Jr. finally quit drugs in 2003 when his new girlfriend (NOT BURGER KING) gave him an ultimatum. She is unofficially known around Hollywood as the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey Jr.
9Yl6X TIL that there is a statue of Babe Ruth standing in the Sendai Zoo in Japan. It was on that very spot – considered sacred by some – where the great Yankees slugger’s first home run in Japan landed.
wnG1 TIL the USSR built a Skynet-like device in the 1980s that would launch a massive nuclear attack without any human intervention if it detected Moscow had been destroyed