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TIL that there is a city in Minnesota named Montevideo, as in the capital of Uruguay, and both namesakes are sister cities, dating back to 1905.

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NXAWE TIL Nine of the ten of the cities with the highest homicide rate per capita are in Mexico
9Bn7 TIL that one of the missions Apollo 15’s crew did in the moon was to make an experiment, using a feather and hammer, to demonstrate Galileo’s theory that all objects in a given gravity field fall at the same rate, regardless of mass.
NoGP TIL A killer fog blanketed London in 1952 and left as many as 12,000 people dead. It led to Parliament passing the first Clean Air Act in 1956.
dDRZK TIL that the ship referenced in Shirley Temple's song "The Good Ship Lollipop" was an airplane, not a boat.
KY96J TIL The giant balloons in the Macy’s parade were originally allowed to float away, and those who found them got a gift certificate from Macy’s.