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TIL Jackie Chan is a trained opera singer and has released 20 albums

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N7KZb TIL Michael Jackson was planning on buying Marvel with Stan Lee in the late '90s, but it never happened.
P1m0J TIL a New Haven colonist was accused of bestiality in 1647 when a neighborhood sow gave birth to piglets that allegedly resembled him. Called "the most interesting buggery case" ever, it left an enduring mark in the history of capital punishment.
e0BQn TIL: Microsoft gave the domain Bob.com to a guy named Bob in exchange for Windows2000.com
GMl1 TIL When worn on deployment, US Flag patches on uniforms are infrared so soldiers can be identified as friendly by others looking through night vision goggles
5YDeB TIL a newly crafted DNA base pair, an unnatural base pair (UBP), has been used to create a semi-synthetic organism that can make amino acids and proteins not otherwise found in nature