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TIL “OK” was invented for the lolz

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loxnN TIL that “Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.
m1R0o TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons-in-law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations
NJZM TIL of Pando, a grove of aspen trees in Utah that is actually a single organism with 40,000 stems (trunks). Some experts believe that Pando may be up to a million years old.
nWred TIL that there is an open-source Python package called "Dulwich", and why it's named after an area in London: It's a pure Python version of Git, and the name comes from a Monty Python sketch, where the characters Mr. and Mrs. Git live and occasionally attend to cocktail parties.
eppWb TIL that from the European colonization of the Americas in 1492, to the US army’s last official campaign against the Indians on 1890; The Native’s population went from an estimated 60 million to 248 thousand