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TIL Singapore’s constitution requires the President to have experience as a minister - or as CEO of a large, profitable company.

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ABb4 TIL of Shirley Temple’s time as a diplomat. She was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, as well as the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States.
x6Ngw TIL that in 1959, an eccentric musician named John Cage composed a piece titled "4'33"," which consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. Just pure silence. No music.
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