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TIL Jackie Chan is actually a trained opera singer and has recorded over 20 albums with over 100 songs in over 5 different languages. In the 80’s, he would sing the theme songs to his films over the closing credits. In 1984, he won the Best Foreign Singer Award in Japan

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8a9gV TIL: After a 1979 court case ruled the city could not be held responsible for people tripping and falling on cracked sidewalks unless the city had been previously notified of the hazard, the Trial Lawyers formed a committee to map every crack, pothole, and other hazard in the city and report them.
VB49Z TIL that in 1405, King Charles VI of France went five months without bathing or changing his clothes. He was also convinced he was made of glass and feared he would shatter if touched.
9mP7 TIL Over 2,000 historic Armenian sites were purposely destroyed by the Turkish state between 1923 and 1974; this happened during Turkey’s so-called “secular” era. In addition, a lot of literature was lost: Turks used paper from science books to wrap cheese and dates in the bazaars.
kJJMg TIL that by 1935 the life expectancy of an S&P 500 company was 90 years. By 2010, it was only 14 years and shrinking
W7RQd TIL Gerhard Domagk’s discovery of the antibacterial properties of Prontosil won him the 1939 Nobel Prize in Medicine but German citizens were forbidden to accept the prize under Hitler. Domagk was forced to reject it by the Gespato before receiving it in 1947 but without the prize money