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

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JYWvl TIL in 1873 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward advocated corset burning. She wrote, "Burn up the corsets! Nor save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens and heave a sigh of relief for your emancipation!"
R7Wl4 TIL of Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1460-1491). His sister eloped with a nobleman and ran off with the family jewels. Believing she had been kidnapped, he followed the pair to the nobleman's castle and tried to cross the frozen moat. His armor was too heavy; he fell through the ice and drowned.
m1Odo TIL the Solomon Islands Parliament Building was built as a US$ 5 million gift from the United States government, in memory of the US servicemen who died in the Battle of Guadalcanal
W7MbN TIL Tim Schafer, creater of Psychonauts and Broken Age, was credited with “Never Actively Trying to Sabotage” the game Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
ZpmoG TIL that Julián Álvarez at 23 years of age, won the Treble (three major trophies in a single season) & the World Cup in the same season, making him the first football player in history to do so.