many of the offspring may have been conceived in the Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan, in Xanadu.
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Xanadu (play /ˈzæn.ə.duː/; Mongolian: šanadu), or Shangdu (Chinese: 上都; pinyin: Shàngdū, Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɑ̂ŋ tú]) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (Chinese: 中都), which he renamed Dàdū, the present-day Beijing. Xanadu was visited by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo in about 1275, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan, by one of the leading English poets of the Romanticism movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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If Ghengis Khan had 40 wives and children by 100 women, as did his children and grandchildren, you would reach 16 million in less than 24 generations.
If each of his 100 children had 100 children each, that would be 10,000 grandchildren. If each of his grandchildren had 100 children, that would be a million great grandchildren. Highly improbable but yet not impossible.
Osama Bin Laden's father had 54 children by many wives, probably more by women he didn't marry.