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yVkNv TIL Genghis Khan invented biological warfare and flung plague-infested bodies into cities during sieges, and is the reason for the Black Death being introduced to Europe.
EkX7 TIL that a company called FANUC operates a factory where no lights, a/c or heat are needed for production because it’s just robots building other robots.
jr7M TIL that, due to the gender imbalance, by the year 2020, 24 million Chinese men will be unable to find a spouse.
Q4na TIL that the egg industry puts male and female chicks on a conveyor belt and after picking out the males, throws them into a grinding machine alive.
yxKX TIL - Lyndon Johnson ordered a pair of pants with extra room from his “nuts” to his “bunghole”.