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TIL Jackie Chan is almost deaf in his right ear because of the injury he suffered while filming Armour of God.

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LNaQ TIL the US ambassador to Afghanistan was kidnapped and killed by militants pretending to be police on Valentine’s Day in 1979.
R8p8 TIL the popular knock pattern, 5 knocks/pause/2 knocks, is called “Shave and a Haircut … Two Bits” and that the tune is highly offensive in Mexico.
9YjdD TIL about Georgia Tann, a woman who stole about 5000 babies from poor parents.
7rbjx TIL that the world's oldest prosthetic device, an artificial wooden toe was found on a 3,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian woman in 1997. Now, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have learned a great deal about how the toe functioned, what it's made of, and how it was fabricated.
M4k8 TIL Chuck Close is a painter who is suffering from prosopagnosia, which means he can’t recognize or remember faces, has used this disability to make large ultra realistic paintings of faces.