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TIL Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas celebrate Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s birthday the same day as Martin Luther King Jr Day

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KY9rQ TIL that a year after he accidentally solved two famously unsolved statistical problems by mistaking them for homework, George Dantzig's same two proofs were accepted as his thesis; his 'unsolved problem' story loosely served as the setup for the plot of Good Will Hunting.
XE0LD TIL about the China National Highway 110 traffic jam; a massive traffic jam that slowed down thousands of vehicles for more than 100 km and lasted for more than 10 days. Drivers were able to move their vehicles only 1 km per day and some drivers were stuck in the traffic jam for 5 days.
RMR7 TIL The greatest living fighter ace is 95, had 222 air kills, and was shot down 16 times.
6jQX TIL that after Bill Murray’s character in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones mentioned a fictitious “National Chicken Wing Festival” in Buffalo, New York, the city created a real version of the festival, and has held it every year since then.
PYoLL TIL Issac Newton was a firm believer in alchemy and studied for years to find a method to create the substance known as the Philosophers Stone, which could apparently turn base metals into gold.