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TIL that in the comic series Transmetropolitan the President of the USA stooped so low as to kill people close to him in order to gain polling points.

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dDWNK TIL that in 1320, the city of Avignon put an entire species of beetle on trial to try and protect their harvest, and they demanded the beetles to withdraw to a designated reserve. When the beetles refused to comply, they were outlawed, detained, and killed.
x645g TIL: Mikhail Gorbachev never ran for office in a direct popular election until 1996. He received .5% of the vote.
w601 TIL that the Boeing factory in Washington is so big that when it was first built clouds formed near the ceiling.
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