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TIL Hitler annexed Austria through a rigged popular referendum. The bubble representing “No” to union was half the size of “Yes” and was shoved to the corner of the ballot.

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D1EpV TIL of Emma Martina Luigia Morano, an Italian supercentenarian who outlived everyone who was born in the 1800s. She died in 2017 at the age of 117 years and 137 days.
9YW6B TIL the Empire of Japan killed as many as 250,000 Chinese civilians because they helped 67 American bomber crewmen escape.
X0Adj TIL that writer Tommy Blacha (Metalocalypse, Late Night With Conan O'Brien) worked as creative director of WWE in 1999.
BrxRk TIL Elena N. Bodnar has a US Patent for inventing a brassiere, that in an emergency, can act as a pair of protective face masks and she was awarded the Ig Nobel Public Health Prize for it in 2009.
oRRwW TIL That Olympus Mons the largest mountain in the Solar System is about two and a half times the size of Mount Everest