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TIL there are thousands of US cities with worse lead contamination levels than Flint, MI.

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xVmDo TIL that the longest time for a traffic jam occurred in August, 2010 and lasted for 12 days and was 62 miles (100 KM) long.
KNY6 TIL In Germany everyone has to pay for a TV licence by law to fund public broadcasting. They also billed Janosch Städtler repeatedly due to a registration which was filed online by a unkown hoaxer. Attempts of his family to explain that he is a dog remained unheard.
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
6EeEQ TIL that cruise ships are required to carry body bags and to maintain a small morgue in the event of a death onboard
jobE TIL: Locusts emerge from their burrows only after prime number of years to make it difficult for predators to evolve - a rare example of prime numbers in nature.