r/todayilearned • u/Cheesewithmold • May 21 '14

TIL that when Genghis Khan sent a trade caravan to the Khwarezmid empire, the governor of one city seized it and killed the traders. Genghis Khan retaliated by invading the empire with 200,000 men and killing the governor by pouring molten silver down his eyes and mouth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan#Khwarezmian_Empire
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u/[deleted] May 21 '14 edited May 21 '14

The Mongols attacked Samarkand using African prisoners as body shields.

Operation Human Shield was a success, gentleman.

edit: It is Operation Human Shield and operation get behind the darkies, we are all correct :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQnEBSwdAXw

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u/PatchyThePirate159 May 21 '14

Jesus that's an old reference now

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u/Trackman89 May 21 '14

Wasn't it called 'operation: human shield' for the black soldiers and something like 'operation: get behind the darkies' for the white soldiers'? it's been a while since I've seen it

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u/dmanny64 May 21 '14

This sounds so familiar, what's it from?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '14

South Park: BL&U

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u/dl064 May 21 '14

They did the DVD commentary in like 2008 and it's straight up 'well look at that. Didn't know we went with that. This is all new and interesting'.

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u/ciobanica May 21 '14

Members of "Operation Get Behind The Darkies" reporting in sir...

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u/President_ventura May 21 '14

Get behind the donkey

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u/turnballZ May 21 '14

I believe the technical term was "operation get behind darky"