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TIL Jackie Chan now officially holds the Guinness World Record for the most credits in one movie AND the most stunts by a living actor!

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OMv6 TIL - The Canadian Government sent 1000’s of personnel, 3 warships, the Coast Guard, and divers to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina – In locations the USA were reluctant to go to because of contamination.
W7M5A TIL Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is the granddaughter of a famous and hugely influential movie producer, the daughter of a famous actress and author and the niece of another movie producer who produced such films as Conan the Barbarian, Dune, and Kull the Conqueror.
mxdJx TIL that Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive coast-to-coast across the USA in 1909. The 22-year-old housewife and mother completed the 3,800-mile journey from New York to San Francisco in a green Maxwell 30. The 59-day trek took 3-weeks longer than planned & 96% of the route was unpaved
KOmD6 TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening is left handed, and that's why there was a whole episode devoted to Ned Flanders and his Leftorium.
R75k6 TIL that before the Han-Liu War, a 1932 battle between opposing warlords for the Shandong province, many of Liu's soldiers brought their own coffins to the battle because they expected to fight to the death.