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TIL Jackie Chan will donate all his money to charity so his son can earn his own worth.

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AN9L4 TIL Hawaiian slack-key guitar tunings were once guarded fiercely and passed down as family secrets.
8aGJ8 TIL Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with feces, called it 'Artist's shit' and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees.
p86oO TIL "Roar" is considered the most dangerous film ever made. Over 100 big cats roamed during filming without adequate trainers, and more than 70 of the crew were injured. The director suffered many attacks, at points developing gangrene and blood poisoning. The cinematographer was scalped.
LQAZv TIL - Indonesia has 3 tiger subspecies. The Bali tiger vanished in the 1940s, while the last confirmed sighting of the Javan tiger occurred in the 1970s. This left only the Sumatran tiger, with an estimated population of fewer than 400 individuals, as the sole surviving tiger subspecies in Indonesia
OXr7 TIL Nicholas Cage, to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.