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TIL Hitler ever only received about 37% of the popular vote

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neLRb TIL in 1943 the USS Robin was actually the Royal Navy carrier HMS Victorious tasked with working with the USS Saratoga in the Pacific until new US carriers could replace war losses. They cooperated the extent that US fighters were based on the Victorious and UK bombers were based on the Saratoga.
6WPX TIL $41 billion worth of gift cards have likely gone unredeemed from 2005 to 2011.
lovDA TIL of the Nazino Affair, a brutal USSR plan in which 6,000 political prisoners and criminals were rounded up and deported to an isolated island in Western Siberia, surrounded by guards and left only with flour. The society soon descended into anarchy and cannibalism; 4,000 died after only a month.
ojEr TIL Angry Birds and Clash of Clans have helped rejuvenate Finland’s economy after Nokia’s downfall
8NZL TIL: Seven people across the world will hold a keycard which when put together will reboot the key part of the World Wide Web should a security breach, natural disaster or terrorist attack disable it.