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TIL Ronald Reagan got the most votes of any candidate during the 1968 Republican Presidential Primaries, but Richard Nixon won the nomination.

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nY4P TIL that the reward of 72 virgins may be a mistranslation. The reward for martyrdom may actually be raisins.
YpVPA TIL Masturbation was frequently reported as Cause of Death for soldiers during the (American) Civil War. At the time, “the solitary vice” was thought to cause physical decay, insanity, and death.
grMJD TIL 19th century French utopian socialist Pierre Leroux advocated the system of Circulus, which proposed human excrement to be collected as a tax by the state to be reused as fertiliser
Bg7Rk TIL that the largest mall in the world is in Iran and it’s 21 million square feet
E1P4o TIL Norwegians once spiked Nazi food rations with a highly effective laxative. The rations were unwittingly consumed by the Germans while on U-boats.