Useless (but interesting) trivia

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[GJarrett]

My son lives in the Minneapolis/St Paul area and told me once that he lived farther north than most Canadians. I couldn't imagine that and had to look at a map to confirm, but he's right.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

My son lives in the Minneapolis/St Paul area and told me once that he lived farther north than most Canadians. I couldn't imagine that and had to look at a map to confirm, but he's right.

Reminds me of another useless but...

I was tracking an Amazon order. The tracking page has a map showing my home and eventually the delivery vehicle progress. For this order the map was completely blue. So after confirming my house was not currently underwater, I zoomed out repeatedly until land appeared.

For tracking, Amazon thought I lived somewhere in the Indian Ocean. But the package arrived just fine and on schedule.

I find it interesting but useless to know Amazon does not populate the tracking destination from the same place they get the address for the delivery label. Seems like a huge waste of resources to not have that automated, although if it was I suppose there is a 50/50 chance my package would now be at the bottom of the Indian ocean.

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