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

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kJ1NW TIL in the weeks following the Titanic sinking, over 118,000 people had joined the “just missed it club”, claiming they had missed or canceled their trip at the last moment
low5V Til about Jim Gordon, a famous drummer who played for many popular bands in the 70s and is now in prison after he murdered his mother during an episode of undiagnosed schizophrenia.
P1ZVZ TIL that, on gaining power, the Nazis immediately targeted the civil service with a 1933 law to improve “professionalism” by expunging non-Aryans and political opponents. This law was a key reason why Einstein fled to America.
YPy7 TIL The Netherlands are closing eight prisons across their country because of lack of crime.
R5bb6 TIL mammoths were still alive as recently as 3730 - 4490 years ago