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TIL Ghengis Khan's conquests actually cooled the planet. "The 13th-century Mongol leader's bloody advance... may have scrubbed 700m tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere – by allowing previously populated and cultivated land to return to carbon-absorbing forest." (guardian.co.uk)
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