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TIL that Astrud Gilberto made just $120 for singing The Girl from Ipanema, which was the standard studio musician rate at the time. This was because Stan Getz personally intervened to ensure she got nothing.

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KYLXJ TIL in 1971 a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Delaware and got away with 1000 secret documents. The plan was to do the heist during "the match of the century" between Ali and Frazer, predicting that security would be glued to their tv's for the match, and thus distracted
9YxJm TIL of a 7 year old feral child found in Russia last 2008 who was called The Bird Boy because he lived with birds in a virtual aviary and could not speak, only chirp because his mother never talked to him and he would flap his arms when he was approached by people just like a bird.
8ea0P TIL Bowie’s big early influence, singer & popular actor Anthony Newley, had 12 top 40 hits, was Oscar-nominated for writing the score to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, & wrote the title song of Goldfinger
96Q TIL that Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu a hill in New Zealand, translates to “the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as ‘landeater,’ played his flute to his loved one” and is arguably the longest place name.
KY1dG TIL that a single bolt of lightning contains roughly 1 billion joules of energy — enough to toast around 20,000 slices of bread. Source: Perot Museum of Nature and Science (“A single bolt of lightning could contain enough energy to cook 20,000 pieces of toast.