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

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PR5g TIL that many male spiders tie up the legs of females with silk in a preemptive attempt to avoid being eaten by her during or after sex.
aWB0 TIL that Aragorn and Arwen were first cousins… 63 times removed.
GPdN TIL There is an abandoned 120 year old concert hall buried underground in the middle of downtown Boston.
x6lag TIL of Edward The Black Prince of England who would defeat the French at the Battle of Crecy aged 16, nine years later he would capture 50 French towns during a raid, when the French refused to meet him in battle.
mxZDp TIL that before the new world was colonized, "corn" could refer to any edible plant-seed including millet, barley, rye, wheat, maize, or oats. English settlers had no word for maize, so they called it "Indian corn," and eventually just corn.