Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Amy Tan made a memorable appearance on The Simpsons, shooting down Lisa Simpson's reading of The Joy Luck Club, the book that "Rules of the Game" appears in.
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San Francisco's Chinatown, where Waverly and her family live, is super old—it was populated by Chinese immigrants in the wake of the Gold Rush—and it's also the largest Chinatown in North America.
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The youngest chess grandmaster from the United States is Sam Sevian, who was thirteen at the time he earned the distinction. No word on whether or not he still had to do chores, though.
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