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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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QJyep TIL an AI named Cyc became confused by a story of a man shaving. The AI understood that people do not contain any electronic parts, but considered the man holding the electric razor as one entity, and asked if he was still a person while he was shaving.
GYM9E TIL about the Milford massacre. 52 European settlers of Milford, MN were killed in 1 day by a band of Dakota Sioux.
9aa7 TIL of the Carolina Parakeet, a neotropical parrot that was native to much of the United States up until they were driven extinct by deforestation, hunting, and possibly disease in 1910. They lived in huge flocks of up to 300 birds and were likely poisonous to eat.
nexvB TIL the Kit Kat chocolate bar can trace its origins to a worker at the chocolate bar factory who put a note in the suggestion box saying the company should invent a chocolate bar that “a man could take to work in his pack up”.
epKo4 TIL that in 2015, a man named Mark Haub, a professor of nutrition at Kansas State University, went on a 'convenience store diet' for 10 weeks, eating mostly Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos. He lost 27 pounds and improved his cholesterol and blood pressure levels by limiting his calorie intake.