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TIL the longest traffic jam in history lasted for 12 days. It occurred in China in 2010 on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway and stretched for over 62 miles (100km).

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woEXo TIL in 1974, 20 year old Beatrice Aharonowich was attacked and bitten 12 times, by a Mako Shark, and survived.
XEP5j TIL about the process of Natural Beekeeping and the Kenyan Top Bar Hive which also offers solutions to the falling bee populations
rRLby TIL of the 1626 Wanggongchang explosion. A massive unexplained explosion in Beijing, killing 20,000 and estimated to be similar in power to that of the Hiroshima Bombing
1aZMO TIL about Australia drifting so fast, GPS has to be corrected.
b6vej TIL researchers at John Hopkins thought they'd discovered a medical breakthrough when they found a special metabolite in the urine of schizophrenic patients that nobody else had. Eventually, someone realized that ward was simply being served a different brand of coffee.