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TIL: Jackie Chan did NOT voice Jackie Chan in Jackie Chan Adventures. Jackie Chan only appeared on Jackie Chan Adventures as the live-action Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan Adventures Jackie Chan was voice by Jackie Chan Impersonator… James Sie

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NXJNb TIL about the 2009 death of Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell, who at 19 years old was killed by a pair of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. That is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult.
lo4r1 TIL the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won multiple elections, forming a majority government from 2001 to 2009. Communists rarely achieve peaceful transfers of power in multiparty democracies; Moldova is the only European state to be governed by communists since the fall of the USSR.
VgxD TIL Tea is the most popular manufactured drink in the world in terms of consumption. Its consumption equals all other manufactured drinks in the world
0w4WN TIL that in 1914 Capt Campbell, a British POW held in Germany, asked permission from Kaiser Wilhelm II to visit his dying mother in England. The Kaiser agreed, on the condition that Campbell return to the camp, which he did - and remained there until the war ended in 1918.
GA4yg TIL that when an illiterate lottery winner named Abraham Shakespeare (!) mysteriously vanished, amateur web sleuths lured the woman eventually convicted of Shakespeare’s murder into their true crime forum. Link to that forum thread in the comments