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TIL Liechtenstein’s only lake is less than 100 years old, created by a flood of the Rhine

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W5nB TIL that the Guinness Book of Records recognizes the presidential election of 1927 in Liberia as the most fraudulent election reported in history. Although there were only 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time, Charles D. B. King, received 234,000 votes and won.
m1p7p TIL that the line “ hey soul sister, ain’t that mr. mister” from Hey Soul Sister was in fact not train being a bad lyricist and repeating a word twice but the name of an actual band.
OGBP1 TIL Freenet, the first darknet and the network often cited as the beginning of the "dark web", was originally a thesis project by Edinburgh University student Ian Clarke. It received a B.
0w7YA TIL in 2009, Filipino employee Amador Bernabe was kicked out of his job for using water, instead of toilet paper, to clean himself during toilet visits.
pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”