yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

TIL: You Might Be Related to Genghis Khan | Today I Learned


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] [Applause] [Music]

So you probably heard of the name Genghis Khan or Jengus Khan, but you might not realize that something like one in 200 men in the world were genetically related to Genghis Khan. So he was obviously very, um, prolific. Yeah, but it makes sense because it's not just him, but it's also his sons and all of his grandsons. They would wipe out enemies that weren't in their [Music] lineage.

There's more to this story than you thought. Genghis Khan was first motivated by a girl. According to the Secret History of the Mongol, this legend says he was betrothed to a young girl. They didn't talk to each other, but he went through this horrible period where his father had been killed, his horses had been stolen from him and his family, and then he was enslaved.

Through all this time, you know, over the years, she waited for him. One day, he escaped from all of this, and he went out and he found her. As he was riding along, these enemies showed up. She turns to him and she says, "You have to go! You have to run!" He rides off towards this mountain, and he's heartbroken. He prayed to Tangri, "What should I do? What should I do?"

The moment that he decided he was going to fight back, global history changed, for that was the very first fight that he ever had. He got her back, and within a single lifetime, he created the largest contiguous empire in human history from nothing, and it was all a love [Music] story.

I would say that he was, uh, very charismatic. Scientists thought that chameleons change color by changing the pigment in their skin. Not true! How they actually change color is far more complex.

More Articles

View All
How To Be A Financial Minimalist
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here! So this is a term I really want to make more popular and bring more mainstream, and that would be financial minimalism. It’s a term I thought of last week while trying to find a catchy title for my video where I went …
1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
Getting to space is hard. Right now, it’s like going up on a mountain on a unicycle—with a backpack full of explosives. Incredibly slow, you can’t transport a lot of stuff, and you might die. A rocket needs to reach a velocity about 40,000 km an hour to e…
A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders
All right, guys, we’re gonna get started. Sorry for being late. So I have up here Elizabeth Irons. Is it Dr. Elizabeth Irons? No, you’re Professor Elizabeth Irons. So Elizabeth is a cancer biologist by training. You got your PhD in cancer biology from the…
Life's Biggest Paradoxes
In life, anything is possible because we can never fully understand how the world works, and the laws of physics prevent us from being able to tell the future. Everything we predict is a probability; some are a lot more probable, others are less probable,…
Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2
So just a couple of notes. If you’ve noticed, a lot—maybe all—of the presenters thus far are YC people. That’s not going to end right now. However, the rest of the course is mostly, almost exclusively, perspectives on investing from outside of YC. So, don…
This Video Will Hurt
Please, put on your headphones – I promise that there won’t be any loud sounds, but this video is going to hurt. There’s a study about hypersounds and how they cause headaches: these sounds are too high-pitched to hear – like the one added to this video, …