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TIL Google has been providing free WiFi to its home city of Mountain View, CA since 2006. The entire city of 75,000!

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xV1No TIL of Idlewild, Michigan which from 1912 until the end of segregation was known as ‘The Black Eden’ - one of the few places where black Americans could fish, hunt, vacation, party and buy land in peace, without interference.
78Nlr Today I learned about secret ingredient in Leonardo da Vinci paintings. He may have used proteins, especially egg yolk in his oil paintings.
69e1l TIL a woman flying from Manchester to Florida had a heart attack during the flight and when the stewardess asked for help 15 cardiologists came to save her. They were flying to a cardiology conference.
Z87kR TIL that there is a small four acre plot of land inside Belgium, which belongs to Germany. It consists of a single inhabited house with a garden.
nWmg9 TIL that about 90% of Americans consume too much sodium with the average sodium intake being 3,400 mg, more than 1000mg above the recommended limit