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TIL an obsessive Sarah McLachlan fan sued her, alleging that his letters to her had been the basis of her song Possession. The lawsuit was challenging because the fan admitted he was a stalker and his intention was to be near McLachlan in court. Before the trial, he died in an apparent suicide.

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l7eBG TIL the first American-born ace of World War II was Arthur T. Chin. An aviator in the Chinese Air Force during the second Sino-Japanese War, he became the first American-born ace in that war. Chin was born in Portland, Oregon.
kJ0AW TIL that the reason Washington DC was created as a perfect square was due to vague wording in The Constitution in which it stated that the capital district must be "10 miles square".
bpX4 TIL Dolly, the cloned sheep, was named Dolly because she was derived from a mammary gland cell and the researchers “couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s”.
gEZA TIL that in 2005 Nintendo released a game known as Super Princess Peach. In the game, Mario, Toad and Luigi have been captured by Bowser and Peach must rescue them, as well as collecting the all powerful ‘Vibe Scepter’
wLRr6 TIL Nav Bhatia moved to Toronto in 1984; struggling to find work as a mechanical engineer he sold cars, eventually buying the dealership 2 years later. A "superfan" of the Toronto Raptors, He received an official championship ring and was recently inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame