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TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people that he caused a “global cooling”

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Ooylg TIL a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000 (million billion). This was 5000x the GDP of France at the time. It took several days of wrangling before the phone company finally admitted it was a mistake and she owed just €117.21. They let her off.
D7wv TIL In the 1960s, a convent in L.A. agreed to a psychology experiment where the nuns were encouraged to verbalize and respond to their emotions. Within a year more than half the nuns had petitioned to be released from their vows and all that remained was a “small group of radical lesbian nuns.”
GYNo4 TIL that bats in the US eat so many insects that they save farmers an estimated $22.9 billion every year on pesticides.
a8JBZ TIL Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write ‘America the Beautiful’ after reaching the summit of Pike’s Peak in Colorado
v14mr TIL in the 50-plus year history of the Japanese bullet train system, carrying over 5.3 billion passengers, there has been not a single passenger fatality or injury due to train accidents.