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TIL Minneapolis has free wifi that covers nearly 100% of the city.

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OoGLR TIL that in New Orleans cemeteries are "cities of the dead" where coffins are kept in above ground vaults due to the high water table making it impossible to bury the deceased.
9wYLG TIL Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, an HBO animated series from 1995-2000. featuring an all star cast. Each episode takes on a classic fairytale set in a different culture. This included a Chinese Little Red Riding Hood, Latino Hansel & Gretel and, Jamaican Rumpelstiltskin.
oRZ0E TIL: British-based firm Reckitt Benckiser admitted in 2016 that it sold a humidifier disinfectant that killed about 100 people in South Korea. They withdrew their product after South Korean authorities suggested a link between chemicals to sterilise humidifiers and lung conditions in 2011.
oBjD8 TIL: Biologists have observed a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young in the same pregnancy for the first time.
awX5y TIL: During a disaster, the least wounded patients will make it to the hospital the first, creating what is called "the reverse triage effect" where hospitals will be full of the least critical patients. To counter this hospitals may simply send severe but non-critical patients home.