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TIL That In The Last 15 Years There Has Been A Quarter Of A Dozen Reported Cases of Office Chairs Exploding (2 Critical Injuries & 1 Fatality)

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5gRr TIL Jackie Chan is a classically trained vocalist and has released over twenty albums in over five languages, in addition to providing the theme tunes for several of his earlier films and singing in several Chinese dubs of Disney classics
XvX6 TIL Activision proposed a collaboration with Nintendo to create a brand new franchise exclusive to their systems. Nintendo declined. That franchise was Skylanders.
VMrPp TIL that the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, was named in honour of a potential visit by Czar Nicholas, was designed to be higher than the one at the Czar's palace at Peterhof, and reportedly reached a height of 300ft through a gravity fed design.
EgbaV TIL: The colony of Virginia, run by the Virginia Company of London, published "Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall" in 1610-1611. One section required that cursing or speaking disrespectfully of the clergy or company officials be punishable by a bodkin (a type of needle) driven through the tongue.
R7jD4 TIL in the midnight of Dec 29, 2011 Samoa loses a day and jumps forward in time to Dec. 31, 2011 without experiencing Dec 30 as they move westward of international dateline. The switch was made to improve ties with major trade partners in Australia and New Zealand.