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TIL Hitler ever only received about 37% of the popular vote
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TIL the Sixth Crusade was mostly conducted through diplomacy and involved very little actual fighting. Jerusalem was ceded to the Crusaders through Treaty of Jaffa (1229). The reaction to the treaty in both the Christian and Muslim worlds was largely negative.
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TIL A surge protector's ability to protect your equipment degrades over time and should be replaced every couple years.
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TIL there are more endangered snails than any other bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish put together.
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TIL JFK’s elder brother Joseph was groomed and predicted to be President but he was killed in WW2, transferring the expectations to the younger JFK
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TIL In the 19th Century, Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist, estimated that the speed of a single thought can travel along our nerves up to 120 m/s, or ~270 mph.