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TIL that Genghis Khan was responsible for the deaths of so many people that the earth’s carbon levels dropped by almost 700 million tons

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10BO TIL most predators have eyes facing forward while most prey have eyes on the sides of their head
VMboB TIL about "Leonardo da Toenail", a man who went about the University of Southern California surreptitiously painting women's toenails as they studied in the library in the 1980s. Eventually a suspect was caught with 15 bottles of nail polish on him but disappeared before his hearing.
oRWN8 TIL Thomas Edison fabricated the Electric Chair as part of a smear campaign designed to paint Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current (AC) power as more dangerous than Edison's Direct Current (DC) power.
VMNyG TIL We're taller in the morning than in the evening due to gravity compressing the cartilage in our spines when we stand up , sit , etc.
xV8B5 TIL that conservationists created a match.com profile for the world’s loneliest frog named Romeo, in order to raise funds for expeditions to find more of his species. Their work paid off, and Romeo and Juliet are together at last.