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TIL Delhi, India is the most surveilled city in the world with 1,826.6 CCTV cameras per square mile

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WkKGN Today I learned about the Driftless Area; a rugged area of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and a minor part of Illinois that was completely missed by glaciers. It is roughly the size of West Virginia, and is home to huge bluffs, deep canyons, and rare species of plants found no where else.
DQ48J TIL In 2006, the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed what they claimed to be a training camp but actually turned out to be an orphanage
VMYQm TIL that John F. Kennedy liked to say: “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”
P1pAJ TIL Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman are not husband and wife nor brother and sister nor related at all
e0XkE TIL after listening to Standing Bear (Ponca) lecture in 1879, Helen Hunt Jackson researched the mistreatment of Indians at the Astor Library. She was inspired to write A Century of Dishonor and sent a copy to each member of Congress on her own dime. It was dismissed as sentimental.