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TIL that the longest highway in the world is Highway 1 in Australia. Measuring at a length of approximately 14,500 km, (9,000 mi) it circumnavigates the entire country.

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XEEoR TIL that there is a faction of Jews that believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
VM5PB TIL 3.6 billion people have watched some part of the live broadcast of the 2016 Olympics. That is almost half of the world's population.
ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India
l7NX7 TIL that a "culture bound syndrome," or "folk illnes," is a set of psychiatric symptoms that only presents itself in a particular society. One such example is Amok Syndrome from Indonesia, from which we get the term "running amok"
pAnN TIL Oregon state has a lake that drains every winter into a lava tube, turns into a meadow during the spring, and then turns back in to a lake in time for summer