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

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WPvL TIL the United States has a town entirely in Canada
1a5WV TIL a restaurant in New York doesn't employ chefs, but instead employs grandmas. Each day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.
ZpgQ4 TIL the longest straight border in Australia, the WA/SA-NT border, isn’t straight at all. It moves 127 metres from the 129° E parallel halfway. 40yrs after two marked obelisks were placed on other sides of the continent, it was realised one was entirely in the wrong place—but kept the border anyway.
dDQJK TIL State Dept considered lowering the fee to renounce US citizenship from $2350 to $450
KYZ1Q TIL that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was created by scientists John McCarthy, Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956.