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

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GYB05 TIL that One World Trade Center had a flood that trapped people inside elevators. An expert claims that this shouldn't have happened and may indicate a design flaw in the tower.
Z8Ap TIL While filming “The Shining”, Danny Lloyd (Danny) thought he was filming a drama. He didn’t realize it was a horror film until he was 13, and he didn’t see the movie in its entirety until he was 17.
XEWL8 TIL of a 2011 study that analyzed the decisions made by a panel of judges who spent several days reviewing parole applications. It turned out that the likelihood of a prisoner getting parole was mostly determined by how hungry the judges were at different times in the day.
dDKZ7 TIL that not only was a replica of the stolen painting "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" put in the first Bond movie (Dr. No) as a sight gag, but the replica painting was also stolen.
OoRe TIL that there is a mathematical formula that when graphed, produces an image of the formula itself