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TIL the first paramedics in North America were African American
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TIL that despite the popular depiction in films and television, Manhattan has almost no alleys. The Commissioners Plan of 1811 designed the city's grid layout without alleyways to maximize the limited space. The few alleys that remain mostly predate that plan.
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TIL in 2007, São Paulo introduced the Clean City Law. The result was a near-total ban of billboards, digital signs, ostentatious business signs, and advertising on buses and taxis. It turns out that some massive billboards where hiding whole favelas that few knew existed.