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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Scientists lit a cave of natural gas on fire in 1971 expecting it to only burn for a few days; it still burns to this day. It has been nicknamed "The Door to Hell".
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
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