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TIL: There are twin cities on the Mexico-California border called Calexico (USA) and Mexicali (Mexico)

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5VO49 TIL of congressman James Trafica, who was convicted on ten felony charges including "forcing his congressional staff to perform chores at his farm in Ohio"
9bnQ TIL in the 1990s, Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, submitted so many high scores of the classic Gamboy game Tetris to Nintendo Power magazine that they eventually refused to print them. He then began sending them under the name “Evets Kainzow.”
WrP4 TIL that following Marilyn Monroe’s death, Joe DiMaggio was so devastated he held a private funeral barring all the Hollywood elite, delivered roses to her grave three times a week for over 20 years, never remarried, and his last words were “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”
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