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TIL about Jinjing The Penguin Who Swims 5000 Miles Every Year To Visit The Man Who Saved Him

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EgGEx TIL The Mongols employed a gruesome tactic during the siege of Caffa in Genoa. They hurled the bodies of their comrades, who had perished from the bubonic plague, over the city walls, infecting their enemies and marking one of the earliest instances of biological warfare.
OG7gY TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous and could write with one hand while drawing with the other simultaneously.
PYbEO TIL after oil was discovered on their homelands, 60 or more wealthy, full-blood Osage native Americans were killed from 1918 to 1931. The murders appear to have been committed by people intent on taking over their great wealth, whose land was producing valuable oil, and had annual royalties.
KYv8Q TIL that the world’s first commercial electric plane flight successfully took off in Canada, marking a new era in aviation.
8ewoa TIL the idea of machines gaining full consciousness and overthrowing humanity goes back all the way to 1863