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TIL that Jack White from the band The White Stripes took Meg White's last name when they got married in 1996.

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9lW7 TIL that the longest filibuster was performed by Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina senator in opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He talked for 24h and 18 min non-stop.
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