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TIL that every voter in India has the right to a conveniently located polling station. This includes taking a voting machine deep into the forest for just one guy.

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XEbXk TIL I learned an American-born, Irish-raised, fascist, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw went to Germany to broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK in a British accent during WWII.
LRJZ TIL infamous NYC mobster/hitman Bugsy Siegal offered to kill Nazi leaders Herman Goring and Joseph Goebbels in 1938, only relenting because of a mistresses’ pleas
VM5OD TIL that on April 20, 1979, then President Jimmy Carter, was fishing in the middle of a lake in Georgia when a rabbit swam up to his boat and tried to get in it before he scared the rabbit off.
Jpa1 TIL Budweiser sponsors a brothel in the USA
w9lP TIL that East St. Louis has a higher murder rate than Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world