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TIL Genghis Kahn killed 40 million people during his conquest, enough to cool the planet. He removed 700 million pounds of carbon- roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon global society now produces annually from gasoline.

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QaKp TIL Viggo Mortensen often spent days hiking to LOTR’s remote locations in costume, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.
p8yjO TIL that during WWII the US experimented with using a bomb filled with live bats that had incendiary devices attached to them in an attempt to set enemy cities on fire
5VV1B TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the "Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands", a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.
GAYlj TIL that Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was an Anglo-India born Mumbai, making her the first South Asian ever to be nominated for an Oscar
Z8kZD TIL in 1824, Thomas Jefferson introduced legislature for the United States to end slavery by purchasing all slave children, train them for various skills and crafts, and then send them to the Dominican Republic.