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TIL A female lumberjack is called a lumberjill

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ANOYl TIL: The descendants of Genghis Khan (1162 — 25 August 1227) continued to rule parts of Central Asia for 700 years until the 1920s, when they were conquered by the Bolsheviks and their states became part of the Soviet Union.
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