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TIL It’s illegal to whistle in Petrolia, Ontario

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v1Gd4 TIL George Orwell was painfully dying of tuberculosis when he wrote 1984, and he died very shortly after he handed it in to his publisher.
GbEQ TIL the “wall follower” is the best-known rule for solving mazes. If the maze is “simply connected”, that is all its walls are connected together or to the maze’s outer boundary, then by keeping one hand in contact with one wall of the maze the solver is guaranteed not to get lost.
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