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TIL that this chair scene in Austin Powers wasn’t scripted. The tech team was messing with Mike and he stayed in character so they just kept the scene.

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awvmL TIL Albert Anastasia, considered to be one of the deadliest criminals of all time, was sentenced to death for the murder of a longshoreman in 1921. In 1922 he won a retrial on a technicality and went on to become boss of the Gambino Family & Murder Inc. He was responsible for thousands of murders.
awDd9 TIL A Florida artist created the cover for Playboy's special Hugh Hefner tribute issue using hundreds of bits of paper culled from the Playboy magazine archives. He got the job two days after Hefner's death when he emailed Playboy a brief proposal offering his services
wL0wE TIL that the national meteorological service of Italy is one of the last national meteorological service which is still within the armed forces
E1Kmx TIL Werner Herzog once jumped into a cactus, to cheer up an actor who was accidentally run over and set on fire while working on his film
gMam8 TIL the mathematician Paul Erdős regularly used amphetamines to increase his mathematical output. His friend bet him he couldn't stop using them for a month - Erdős won the bet but claimed that it had caused mathematics to be set back by a month.