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TIL in 1201, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.

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e1QD TIL “Impossible” colors exist such as Red-Green (NOT brown) and Yellow-Blue (NOT Green) that humans can not NORMALLY see. By staring at adjacent bits of red and green, or of yellow and blue, your brain will eventually create a color you’ve never seen before!
dDBZj TIL there is a rare carnivorous caterpillar in Hawaii nicknamed the “Bone Collector.” It lives inside spider webs and decorates its silk case with the dismembered heads, wings, and legs of its prey to camouflage itself from the "landlord" spider.
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