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TIL of a Chinese traffic jam that lasted 10 days, with some individual drivers taking up to 5 days to get out. This took so long that a small micro economy developed on the highway

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nWBEY TIL in 1963, a cat named Félicette became the first and only cat (so far) to travel to space. She was sent on the mission by the French government and successfully returned to Earth, providing valuable scientific data from her 15-minute suborbital flight
neMdG TIL of Roger Carel, a actor and voice actor from France, who dubbed many iconic American characters from America into french for their audiences, including C-3PO, Winnie The Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Yogi Bear, ALF, Kermit The Frog and more.
d850Z TIL that May 12 is International Nurses Day. It is the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.
Lkwjr TIL that in 1991 a US missile accidentally killed 28 people due to an error in how numbers were stored in the computer controlling the missile.
nKJP TIL that while New Coke was a bomb, the return of the original formula as Coca-Cola Classic was very successful. When asked if New Coke was a conspiracy to promote the soda, an executive replied “We’re not that dumb, and we’re not that smart”.