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TIL former president of Liberia Charles King holds the Guinness World record for the most fraudulent election ever having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country of 15,000 voters

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9wNeQ TIL Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was influenced to pursue her career in law after watching 12 Angry Men, noting juror 11's reverence for the justice system. When she was a lower court judge she would tell jurors not to follow the film's example because it was based on speculation, not fact.
4k6vw TIL that beans are banned in Spacecraft because they can produce "1-3 cups of flatus" in an environment where there are no windows
1y48 TIL a South Korean man committed a mass murder when his girlfriend woke him up trying to swat a fly on his chest while he was asleep
L7QV TIL of Superman: Red Son, an alternate universe where Superman landed in the Soviet Union instead of America. He is described as a “Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin”
4X4PJ TIL convicted of a felony in 1934; the Governor of North Dakota barricaded himself in the Governor's Mansion, declared Martial Law, and declared North Dakota an Independent State