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TIL that Genghis Khan believed he was a punishment sent from God to the people he conquered

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x6aJ1 TIL that the 1980 miles of Alaska’s Yukon River is only crossed by 4 bridges. By comparison, the slightly longer Mississippi River is has more than 132 bridges.
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