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TIL: Niger has more births per year than Japan despite having around 1/5th the population

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ObWL TIL that in 120, 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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