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TIL that around 11% of the world population was killed during the Mongol invasions.

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eQv4 TIL a Texas dad engaged in a 3-hour armed standoff with police while trying to prevent doctors from pulling the plug on his brain-dead son. The son eventually came out of his coma and recovered. Dad was charged for the incident, but the charges were later reduced.
d8p68 TIL: Alpha Centauri ( α Cen) is the closest star system to Earth's Solar System at about 4.37 light-years or 25,600,000,000,000 miles (40,130,000,000,000 km) away from from the Sun. The flight to Alpha Centauri with the speed of Apollo 11 will take us over 100,000 years to complete.
wPwo TIL that there is a Bollywood remake of Fight Club that did away with most of the plot, replacing it with elaborate musical sequences.
awmmM TIL: There's a skyscraper with a Ferris wheel built in. The first-of-its-kind ride is mounted over 300 feet above street level. Plans for the project fell through and the building currently stands empty.
nW5OP TIL about the Weissenberg effect: when you stir certain unusual liquids, they sometimes climb up the stirring rod instead of being pushed outward. This strange behavior happens with some non-Newtonian fluids (liquids that don't flow like water) and is used in some manufacturing processes.