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TIL Russia built a city in China as the terminus for the Trans-Siberian railway. Its Chinese name, Dalian, comes from the Russian word for "far away".

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BeDL TIL that Samuel L Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr’s funeral
5n9 TIL: Ravel’s “Boléro” is thought to be a symptom of the neurological condition “progressive aphasia.”
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