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TIL Loving County, Texas, is named after rancher Oliver Loving. While dying in New Mexico in 1867 from gangrene caused by Comanche arrows, Loving convinced his friend to temporarily bury his body for six months, then exhume it and haul it by wagon 500 miles back to Texas for a proper burial.

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