Post * ReW8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Subotai was the primary General of Genghis Khan during the Mongolian conquest of Asia. He directed more than twenty campaigns in which he conquered thirty-two nations and won sixty-five pitched battles, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history.

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4kgYR TIL that astronauts on the International Space Station get 15-16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

VMLyQ TIL it is largely a myth that the Library of Alexandria was destroyed in a fire. Most of the collection had records elsewhere in the world. The Library of Alexandria was largely brought down by dwindling membership over many centuries. By the time it was destroyed, no books were housed there.

8mOV TIL the Grasshopper mouse is a carnivorous rodent that eats scorpions, snakes, and even kills and eats other mice. It also stalks its prey in the manner of a cat and defends its territory by ‘howling’ like a wolf while being immune to various venoms.

ME0 TIL Slash shoplifted his hat.

P1XEZ TIL that there are online scam/gambling farms run by people enslaved by Chinese gangs, most of which based in Cambodia and Myanmar, where people across Southeast Asia are being tortured into scamming people or coercing others into gambling.