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TIL about the Texas Archive War, in which Texas fought a (small) civil war over the location of official documents

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KOoew TIL in Germany you can name a cyclone or anticyclone for a donation to meteorology, which is why they call the current European windstorm "Sabine" rather than "Ciara"
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