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TIL The Royal Navy commissioned a class of fast patrol boats during the 1950s which were all prefixed with the word ‘gay’. Names of boats in this class included Gay Bruiser and Gay Charger.

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kXv1 TIL that in 1927 Charles D. B. King won the presidential election in Liberia when he got 234,000 votes against the opponents 9,000. There were 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time.