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
Charlie Munger: We Are In A Stock Market Bubble
Do you agree that there is a close parallel to the late 90s and this therefore quote must end badly? Yes, I think it must end badly, but I don’t know when. [Music] All right guys, welcome back to the channel. In this video, we are doing yet another Char…
Determining angle of rotation
We’re told that triangle A’B’C’ (so that’s this red triangle over here) is the image of triangle ABC (so that’s this blue triangle here) under rotation about the origin. So, we’re rotating about the origin here. Determine the angle of rotation. So, like …
fly with me from CA to AZ | tiny airplane, big adventure! day 1
Hi, I’m Stevie, and this is my 1949 Cessna 140A that we’re going to be flying all the way from California to Wisconsin for EAA Air Venture. If you’re not familiar, Air Venture is like the pilot event every single year. 600,000 people and over 10,000 plane…
For parents: setting a daily learning schedule for learners ages 2-7
Hi everyone! If you’re already here for the Structuring the Day webinar from Khan Academy Kids, thank you so much for joining. We’re going to get started in just a minute when folks have had time to join. Thank you! Hi, my name is Sophie, and I’m from th…
SOUNDS.
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And I’m with Destin in Alabama. What he’s about to do is capture on a Phantom camera at a 1080 frames a second a hawk - that one - catching a target. But today we’re going to talk about sound. First things first. The Raptor Cen…
Torque Basics | Simple harmonic motion and rotational motion | AP Physics 1 | Khan Academy
Imagine you’ve got a door here with a blue doorknob. Any one of these 10-newton forces will cause the door to rotate around the hinge, or the axis, or sometimes this is called the pivot point. Any one of these forces will cause the door to rotate. My que…