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TIL Genghis Khan fathered over a thousand children, and because of that 1 in 200 men (0.5%) today are direct descendants of his.

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W7YJX TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which infects nearly 250 million people, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America. “It's one of the world's most deadly parasites,” says Susanne Sokolow, a disease ecologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station
e0onk TIL about this crow that broke his beak years ago in a collision with a car. His lady crow of many years has patiently fed him since.
ep4Rk TIL Saffron Powerfully Modulates Anxiety and Depression
ADm1a TIL : Early humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa around 55,000 BCE.
Z8k4Q TIL that everyone senses smell differently