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TIL that in an election, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo “received” more votes than the number of voters.

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vdbD TIL that it is an offence to say that the golden color of the German flag as “yellow”.
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697gW TIL the largest war in history wasn’t between humans but between billions of ants carried out on multiple continents
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R7Mjj TIL the taunting Frenchman in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was historically accurate. John Cleese had the idea after reading in a history book about mediaeval soldiers whose sole purpose were to launch insults against enemy soldiers prior to battle.