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TIL that the Austin Powers theme song was written by Quincy Jones. "Soul Bossa Nova" was written in 20 minutes.

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bLxp TIL While governor of Chukotka from 2000-2008, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich spent over US$1.3 billion of his own money on the region.
1vxD TIL that in May 1959, when Billie Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York with liver and heart disease, she was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying. Her hospital room was raided by police and she remained under police guard until her death in July.
pY5DQ TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect for the World Trade Center towers, never lived to see the attacks on 9/11. He died in 1986 at the at age of 73 from stomach cancer.
7r9kL TIL of Cinnabar. A bright scarlet form of Mercury(II) Sulfide and the most toxic mineral on Earth. Being sent to Spanish cinnabar mines in the Middle Ages was considered a death sentence.
oBj0K TIL about a real, legitimate religion called pastafarianism or the church of the flying spaghetti monster.