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TIL that the longest traffic jam, which happened in August 2010 in Beijing, China, lasted for a tremendous 12 days in a 62-mile(100 km) road. Its cause was the road work on the highway and many vehicles clogging all over the road

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6EdYJ TIL there is a charity that uses natural geographic features and strategic protection of land to block huge areas of rainforest from logging, making it extremely cost-effective
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9wdaM TIL: That the story of Robert Heft, the high schooler who is credited to have designed the US flag with 50 stars, is a likely a made up story
OooEX TIL that one of the symptoms of a Brazilian Wandering spider's bite is an incredibly painful erection that lasts for hours
Wkd49 TIL Three different artificial sweeteners (saccharin, cyclamate & aspartame) were discovered as the direct result of scientists with poor hand hygiene.