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TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders

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kpR4 TIL of Mary Turner, a black woman killed in 1918. A mob hung her upside down from a tree and set her on fire. Still alive, a member of the mob cut her stomach open with a knife. Her unborn child fell on the ground, where it was stomped on and crushed. Finally, her body was shot hundreds of times.
xVED0 TIL Roman Emperor Valentinian I died from bursting a blood vessel in his skull while angrily yelling at envoys from a Germanic tribe known as the Quadi, for their diplomatic insults.
9YQnM TIL that, legally speaking, there is only a single town in Pennsylvania; Bloomsburg. Every other municipality is either a city, township, or borough.
Bgg7y TIL That John Garand, who designed the M-1 rifle that bears his name, never received any royalties for the design and that an attempt to award him $100 000 by an act of Congress failed despite almost six million rifles being produced.
awgEL TIL forensic examination of the recently discovered skeleton of King Richard III shows he perished at the hands of assailants who hacked away pieces of his scalp and rammed spikes into his brain as the helmetless monarch knelt in the mud.