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TIL When JFK was running for office in 1946, his father paid a man with the same name as his biggest opponent to run for election, thus confusing voters and taking votes away from the true opponent.

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78wOZ TIL about the Council of Constance (1414-1418), that resolved the Western Schism within the Catholic Church. It arranged the renunciation of both Roman pope Gregory XII and Pisan antipope John XXIII. The Avignon antipope Benedict XIII was excommunicated, while pope Martin V was elected
BgvwK TIL that after medieval king of Scotland Robert the Bruce wandered away from his army he was charged at by an English knight. Instead of retreating Bruce charged and killed the Englishmen by smashing his head with an axe.
XOJP TIL Roger Ebert gave a half-star review to the Power Rangers movie: “What depresses me inutterably is that children, who are fresh and inquisitive, will go to this movie and, for 88 minutes, the movie will do what it can to deaden their imaginations. ”
RDn7 TIL that US, Canadian and Australian consumption of cannabis per capita is more than double that of the Dutch, despite it being legal in Netherlands.
oV87 TIL our fingerprints are developed while we’re still in the womb and are unique based on our movement, location in the womb and composition of our mother’s amniotic fluid