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TIL that the longest traffic jam in history was 62 Miles long lasting 12 days.

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lEgr TIL L. Ron Hubbard once fought a 68 hour naval battle with two non-existent Japanese submarines after operating his vessel’s SONAR incorrectly.
7brx TIL that after the French Revolution, the scientific community implemented along with the metric system, metric time, which failed miserably due to the fact that people did not want to deviate from a 7 day week to a 10 day week.
PYrMw TIL about Joseph Jagger, the man who won 7.5 million dollars in Monte Carlo because he knew by industry how roulette wheels were rigged.
N7YLN TIL about the Rainman Twins. Kay and Flo are the only identical twin autistic savant sisters to exist.
1gmd TIL that Nero did not “fiddle while Rome burned.” He rushed to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for personally. He opened his palace to provide shelter for survivors, and arranged food deliveries to prevent starvation.