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TIL Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire Killed 11% of the World's Population in the 13th Century

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PYxEn TIL that in the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line "Hasta la vista, baby" is dubbed in the European Spanish version as "Sayonara, baby".
x67j0 TIL the first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. The students at Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend in 1847, so they decided to accept her. She graduated in 1849, started own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
BXKD TIL that Britain only finished paying its WW2 debts off in 2006, and was only three months shy of bankruptcy when the war ended in 1945
JYej1 TIL, aroundf 2.1 billion years ago, there existeed several multicellular organisms, that were likely one of the first forays into multicellularity, they coincided with a brief moment of increased oxygen levels and went extinct after the levels dropped, they do not have any modern-day descendants.
9wYYG TIL that the danish 19th century pastor N.F.S. Grundtvig argued for freedom of speech and religion with the quote: "Freedom for Loki as well as for Thor"