A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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