You learn the states and their capitols in grade school, which is only a hundred names. The capitols fade over time, but you hear about the various states on the news all the time. And yeah, there's always the internet when memory fails. I looked just now and realized that I'd been to Indiana a long time ago. Don't remember it, but it's between Missouri and Ohio so, unless I teleported, I drove right across it. Wow, I've lost an entire state.