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TIL 5 Presidents have been elected while still losing the popular vote. Greatest margin 10%

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e0QjD TIL about “key money:” illegal bribes that potential tenants would give a landlord to ensure that they were given priority consideration when looking for an apartment.
LR6v TIL The CIA has admitted to torturing people in a failed attempted to brainwash them.
MmR7 TIL that despite harsh punishments, many Germans ridiculed “Heil Hitler”, some saying “Ein Liter” instead, and others sarcastically responding with “Is He Sick?” because of the identical pronunciations of “Heil” and “Heal”.
4k0EJ TIL of Alex Stepney, an English soccer goalkeeper so got so angry at his own team-mates, he literally dislocated his jaw screaming at them.
Br8By TIL about Aleksey Maresyev, a pilot who was shot down in Nazi territory, lost the use of his legs, and crawled for eighteen days before returning to Soviet territory. His legs were then amputated. Nevertheless, within a year he was flying again on prosthetic legs.