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

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VMgV0 TIL Dock Ellis threw a no hitter for the Pirates while tripping on LSD. At one point he thought Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and Jimi Hendrix was at bat swinging a guitar.
Lka1m TIL Male chess grandmasters outnumber female chess grandmasters fifty-to-one.
wdoW TIL that the ‘Kronos Effect’ is a business concept that confirms the chilling effect monopoly and massive corporations have on technology. Constant concern about being overtaken leads the giant corporations to purchase and destroy all fledgling competition.
wLMK7 TIL The Arizona Cardinals football team is older than the state of Arizona
168vD TIL Sichuan salt wells are 2,250 old. As demand for salt grew, deeper wells were needed. Sometimes, they hit natural gas pockets resulting in explosions. They learnt to harness it with bamboo tubes and mud. Gas was then used to cook the brine to produce salt crystals faster.