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TIL that the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is translated as The Spy Who Liked Me a Lot in China.

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GQNE TIL the FBI spend years trying to decipher two notes left by a murder victim who couldn’t write.
4XLWg TIL in 1939 Russian minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed bombing missions over Finland as humanitarian food deliveries for their starvng neighbours. The Finns dubbed them "Molotov bread baskets". When the firebomb was developed, the Finns called it "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food"
j6wBv TIL that despite it being one of her best known songs, Doris Day hated performing "Que Sera, Sera", calling it "a kiddie song" and considered it inappropriate for the film it was written for, The Man Who Knew Too Much (which is about a kidnapped child). She eventually refused to ever sing it again.
ANbpn TIL that the dap, handshake, originated with Black American soldiers in the Vietnam War
8ajga TIL a man once tried to sue New York City for "two undecillion dollars" after being bitten by a dog, having a couple photograph him while being treated for the injury, and being overcharged coffee at the airport