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TIL that Mongols were actually outnumbered in most of their victories in battles. But they still managed to deceive their enemies by elaborate ruses - like mounting dummies atop horses, and tying sticks to the horses’ tails to create dust storms.

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XEJE TIL the reason why you occasionally can receive radio stations from cities far outside their normal broadcast range. A phenomenon called Tropospheric Ducting acts like a lens, bending the radio waves and greatly extending the normal reception range.
D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.
D1JAY TIL that the cinematographer for the music video of REM’s “The One I Love” was chef Alton Brown. Reportedly, between takes he would watch cooking shows and thought he could do better.
NXEpe TIL: Robert Downey Jr was almost cast as Dr.Doom in Fantastic Four (2005), 19 years later RDJ has been confirmed as Dr.Doom in the MCU
M7eBa TIL an octopus mermaid (Such as Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid) is called a "Cecaelia", a modern term derived primarily from a black-and-white comic in Vampirella Magazine from the early 1970s featuring a woman/octopus hybrid character named Cilia.