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TIL that 94% of people who live in Minneapolis are within a 10 minute walk to a park.

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wx9M TIL every Grammy statue awarded in the last 30-odd years has been made by one guy in a little town in Western Colorado.
jNl6N TIL that Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live and certainly the most prolific, completed about half of his life’s work completely blind
78bxr TIL that Christopher Plummer was a great-grandson of 3rd Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott
E1QQ7 TIL of George Engel; an American anarchist who, after being falsely arrested for a bombing, wrote a letter asking the judge not to give any clemency. His last words before being hanged were "Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life".
yVdWa TIL that the US Air Force jettisoned a nuclear bomb over Quebec in 1950 due to engine trouble in the B-50 bomber. Luckily, the plutonium core was not installed at the time. The USAF covered up the nuclear incident until the 1980s.