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TIL that Joe DiMaggio was so in love with Marilyn Monroe that after her death he had flowers delivered to her grave twice a week for 20 years

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yVd9M TIL Korean shoe sizes are just the length of your foot in millimeters
5Y4YP TIL of Otis Blackwell, a black songwriter who wrote some of Elvis Presley's songs including "Return to Sender" and "All Shook Up". The two never met.
dZZK TIL in 2008 when Joe Walsh (iconic member of The Eagles) married Marjorie Bach, he became the brother-in-law of The Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr.
kO4Xm TIL there is a woman from Oklahoma who needed her leg amputated due to cancer, so she kept the limb, had it skeletonized, and now runs an Instagram account largely dedicated to taking photos of/with a former portion of her own skeleton.
v19gL TIL about the Land Rush of 1889 - 50,000 people raced into unclaimed lands in present-day Oklahoma, looking to claim a piece of two million acres put up for grabs. Within hours of the Land Rush beginning, Oklahoma City and Guthrie had populations of 10,000 people.