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TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible

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9wv7Q TIL about John Wilkes, a British politician, who once lost an election even after bribing a ship's captain to take a load of opposition voters to Norway.
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