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TIL that nearly 8% of Asian men are descended from Genghis Khan. That’s nearly 350 million men with one common ancestor.

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p8Gne TIL that in 1901, a doctor was told mid-surgery that he was needed urgently elsewhere, to which he responded that he could not leave "even for the President of the United States". He was then told he needed to operate on William McKinley, the President of the United States.
bZyQ TIL that the spandex name was chosen as an anagram of “expands”
W1dY TIL Star Trek’s Scotty, James Doohan, was a CDN soldier who landed on Juno Beach, killed two snipers and cleared a minefield before even getting off the beachhead.
dMDj TIL that buried within the code of GoldenEye for the N64 is a fully-functional ZX Spectrum console emulator complete with ten games. It wasn’t discovered until 2012.
Jjrk TIL the Singaporean military was established by Israel