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TIL in Beijing there was a Traffic Jam that lasted over 9 days.

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bNa9 TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
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7vLO TIL That in 2012, the mock anthem of Kazakhstan, from “Borat” was mistakenly played at the Amir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix, instead of the actual one.
gvZ8 TIL Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.