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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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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