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TIL Jet Li was a Chinese citizen until 2003, United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. He was said to have chosen Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters.

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6EYaw TIL Johnny Cash performed dressed all in black, in contrast to most of the major country acts in his day – rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to explain that he wore black for the poor and hungry and those betrayed by age or drugs.
e0QA6 TIL that Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted by the Nixon administration for assassination in 1972. The plot was foiled when the assassination plotters, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were arrested for the Watergate break-in.
78dkZ TIL That zebras primary reason for having stripes it to deter flies and other insects from landing on and biting them. The stripes cause the insects to miscalculate their landing zone, making it difficult for them to land on the zebra. The stripes evolved over time to adapt to their climate.
Xejr TIL that members of congress receive access to classified intelligence information without going through a background check – and many of them wouldn’t pass it if they did.
jKyN TIL In the Mid 80’s, the United States Navy claimed they were searching for the SS Titanic as a cover to find the sunken nuclear attack submarine, the USS Thresher. They accidentally found the Titanic.