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TIL that Genghis Khan had more than 1,000 affairs during his lifetime, making every 1 in 200 men related to him...

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ob48 TIL if you are lost in the bush, 99% of the time you’ll walk in big circles as big as 1km. The human body will always walk to one side of something (trees in this case) and favour that side every time, unless you’re aware of this fault. There’s also a science to it.
BKMx TIL that in Islam, the woman has a “right to orgasm”- The Q'ran states: “If he attains his pleasure before her then he shouldn’t hurry her away until she also attains her pleasure.”
M7A5m TIL Huy Fong’s sriracha (rooster sauce) almost exclusively used peppers grown by Underwood Ranches for 28 years. This ended in 2017 when Huy Fong reneged on their contract, causing the ranch to lose tens of millions of dollars.
kOdE5 TIL: The Striped Blanket Seemingly Every Newborn is pictured in is from an Illinois company. 1.5 million are sold each year
rRKpW TIL its estimated 66 tonnes of human faeces has been left by mointaineers over the years on Mount Denali, North America's highest peak. It has begun to surface downstream due to warming temperatures, appearing "not very different from when it was buried"... and smelly.