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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.
mxgmM TIL that former US Senator Harry Reid informed the FBI of an attempted bribe during his time as head of the Nevada Gaming Commission. He participated in the sting that implicated the would be briber and soon after, his wife found a bomb attached to her car.
logPK TIL Made up of women, the 588th Russian Night Bomber Regiment flew missions behind German lines, in planes built of wood and canvas with no radio or radar, their bombs held to the wings by wire. The Germans referred to them as the Night Witches.
WGm8 TIL that the term “football” did not originally have anything to do with kicking a ball with your feet, but instead meant that a game was played on foot as opposed to on a horse, and hence was a game for “commoners”
eRP5 TIL that the bulbs used in fire sprinkler systems are color-coded to represent the temperature required for the sprinklers to be activated.