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TIL that Mike Myers thought up the Austin Powers character while driving home one day. His radio was playing Burt Bacharach’s “The Look of Love”, and he was with his then-wife Robin Ruzan. Myers asked her if he was “making her horny”. She told him to stop it and write his new character down.

epxXn TIL The Canadian government sent the military (armed with rifles, bayonets, tanks, and IFV) to violently break up a First Nations protest over a golf course expansion onto their sacred burial grounds
xV1W5 TIL Russia built a circular warship
Rmv7 TIL that Pears and Almonds are members of the rose family.
Gmkj TIL Alaska has a rainforest, and its the largest one in the United States.
d8pGQ TIL the average daily caloric intake in North Korea is 2,103.