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TIL Switzerland has no official capital city

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a6YN TIL that David Allan Coe, when asked why he killed a homosexual in prison, he replied “I’m not sure he was a homosexual, well I guess he was, he wanted to fuck me in my ass. You know, I mean, I might not have killed him if he wanted me to fuck him in his ass, but it was a different situation.”
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