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TIL: Mansa Musa was an African Muslim king, whose 4,000-mile trip to Mecca accompanied by a caravan of 60,000 people and thousands of servants. Historians believe that he is the richest man in the worlds history - with an inflation-adjusted fortune, his wealth amounts to around $400 billion today.

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69Vo7 TIL about the Dictionnaire Infernal, a book on demonology first published in 1818. Initially a work of fiction, author Collin de Plancy later converted to Roman Catholicism and amended the book: the final edition aligns with Catholic theology and affirms the existence of the demons.
GYEwg TIL about Nancy Dupree, an American-born woman who became known as the 'grandmother of Afghanistan.' Moving there in 1962 as a diplomat's wife, she spent the rest of her life in and around the country, collecting and saving documents and eventually founding a new library of Afghan history
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xbmo TIL that the World’s Largest Family consists of 1 husband, 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.