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TIL that a 2012 paper found evidence of systematic electronic vote rigging in the 2008 US General Election and 2012 Republican Primaries

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R5x6a TIL The oldest known museum was built sometime around 530 B.C, by a Neo-Babylonian princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna. Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum displayed artifacts from earlier eras of Mesopotamian history, going back as far as the 20th century B.C.
6EOZ TIL that in 2003, a German citizen was kidnapped by the CIA and beaten, stripped, violated and tortured - until they found out they had the wrong guy.
ADj0l TIL of Elouise Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”) who founded the first Native American owned bank. As treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation she tried to resolve accounting discrepancies regarding leases on Indian Land which led to a $3.4 Billion dollar class action settlement against the US government.
1jp4 TIL that the founder & CEO of Little Caesar’s Pizza payed Rosa Park’s rent so that she could live in a better part of Detroit until her death.
rNave TIL that a 10 meter microwave telescope has been operating at the South Pole since 2007