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TIL A doll used in a movie brought more than $200,000 at auction

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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.
4kEow TIL that the popular Springfield (Missouri) style cashew chicken dish was invented by a Chinese born chef who also among other achievements was part of the D-Day invasion.
gEdX TIL it takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey
OmrY TIL modern cattle are all descended from about 81 cows, captured and domesticated in the Anatolia region of Turkey (Asia Minor) about 11,000 years ago
yVAEp TIL that in 1977, Indian painter P.K. Mahanandia biked from India to Sweden to be with his love, selling his possessions to fund the journey.