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TIL One of the most notorious rotten boroughs in the UK before the Great Reform Act of 1832 was Dunwich, a constituency that had mostly flooded after the sea had encroached upon the town. While only 232 people remained by 1831, it still sent 2 MPs to Parliament.

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