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TIL The town of Dalhart, Texas is closer to 6 other state capitals than it is to Texas’s state capital.

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VmaB TIL Yoko Ono stalked John Lennon for over a year while he was married, sometimes standing in front of his house for hours silently.
PYXQn TIL that Americans don’t size their papers like A2, A3 or A4 but they use Letter, Legal or Junior Legal.
NXgb1 TIL Queen Sophie of the Netherlands’ marriage with King William was so turbulent that when she died, she was buried in her wedding dress because she viewed her life ended on the day she got married.
m50Y TIL the FBI once wrote a letter to Martin Luther King suggesting he commit suicide.
k415 TIL a Portuguese soldier in WW1 defeated, single handedly, two German assaults by laying down intense fire, leaving hundreds of Germans dead and allowing the retreat of hundreds of allied soldiers in safety. A few months after, he did the same again.