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

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RPoa TIL there’s an experimental township in India founded in 1968 called Auroville. Where citizens are from all over the world and there’s no money or religion.
ne5GP TIL of Dingo Pictures, a German animation studio infamous for creating traditionally-animated cartoons plagiarizing the works of Disney, Pixar, Don Bluth, and DreamWorks throughout the 90s and early 2000s
l68K TIL sea cucumbers move and hunt in herds.
Me1ba TIL about Kiyomizu-dera, a temple where people used to jump off its 43ft stage due to a belief that those who survived the fall would have their wish granted. Of the 234 jumps recorded during the Edo period, 85.4% survived.
OGlog TIL of the Cypress of Kashmar, a 1450 y.o. giant Cypress tree said to have been planted by the Prophet Zoroaster in Iran. Despite prophecy warning against it, it was chopped down by the Caliph because he did not want to travel so far to see it. The Caliph was murdered soon after.