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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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Z8JpD TIL The first hybrid car was created over a hundred years ago in 1901 by Ferdinand Porsche.
9GgX TIL that planets “emit sounds” by pulsing with radio waves, which can be picked up by radio antennae. The Earth’s noise is sometimes referred to as Earth’s “chorus” because it sounds a bit like birds chirping.
wxDE TIL Robert E Lee, the General of the Confederate Army, was anti-slavery and wanted to keep the Union intact but was very loyal to his home state of Virginia and choose to fight with the Confederacy because that is where Virginia aligned.
QNQlp TIL about the Dracula ant, so named because of its grisly feeding habits of drinking the blood of its young
1aKKP TIL: The first person to set foot on the North Pole was an African-American man named Matthew Henson.