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TIL Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy

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gr8lL TIL about Bob. Bob is a racing pigeon that got lost on routine flight across the English Channel… and ended up in Alabama.
R75rw There is a spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web.
pN9Z TIL: Jimmy Savile was not just a paedophile. His victims were aged up to 75, and he was an overt necrophiliac.