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TIL there is a 50,000 word novel without the letter ‘E’

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NANJ TIL that Haitian leader François Duvalier won a blatantly rigged presidential election in 1961 (with all votes cast for him), after which he declared: “I accept the people’s will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.”
b9ZdE TIL The first Transatlantic cable was built in 1858 and reduced the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days to a matter of minutes.
X0jnk TIL before the Great Depression (1930's), the US President at the time came up with a tariff strategy called the Hawley Tariff Act, despite warnings against it. It was imposed on many other nations, including Mexico and Canada, who then retaliated with their own tariffs, causing worldwide suffering.
mxrRp TIL Precision refers to how tightly clustered your data is; accuracy refers to how close that data is to the real value. You might have a dozen miscalibrated thermometers that all tell you the wrong temperature with a very high degree of precision.
ZxQa TIL that upon its release, twister was referred to as “sex in a box” by critics.