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TIL The Mongols attempted to conquer Japan twice in 1274 and 1281. Both times they were thwarted by tyhoons which were given the name of 'Kamikaze' meaning 'Divine Wind'

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167j4 TIL that the Second Congo War (1998 - 2003), also known as the African World War, was the deadliest conflict since WW2 with 5.4 million deaths.
P1PeO TIL litotes is the term for using a negative to state a positive while implying mediocrity, whether out of politeness, modesty, or as something funny. Some examples that are "not bad" are: "your book wasn't awful", "he's not a terrible learner" and "Maradona wasn't a half-decent footballer"
eB7k TIL Elmo has been called the “Little Red Menace” by Sesame Street purists because he takes screen time away from other beloved characters.
W8yX TIL there’s a service that routes telemarketing calls to a bot that wastes as much time as possible engaging in conversation
1a0V8 TIL Scientists identified a vast underground ecosystem of billions of micro-organisms below the earth - twice the size of the Earth's oceans. Life was shown to survive far beneath the Earth's surface for long periods of time, without energy from the Sun.