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TIL that Thomas Jefferson's tombstone was removed at the request of his family and replaced by a larger replica because visitors were chipping off pieces for souvenirs. The original tombstone is at the University of Missouri, in Columbia.

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9Yp6M TIL Prince Yasuhiko, the perpetrator of Nanjing massacre was never charged after the war because of he was member of the Imperial family. General Matsui was executed despite forbidding his men to loot and expressed grief in his diary when his order was disobeyed.
AOVg TIL You can have your ashes pressed onto vinyl, with your own 24 minute soundtrack.
J1Dol TIL when NASA announced an amnesty for people to give them debris from the Columbia shuttle explosion, some people turned in Challenger debris
ne6pb TIL that in Washington state, there are Bigfoot protection laws, stemming from the logic that if they exist they must be endangered
xGb TIL that Bayer, famous for producing aspirin, purchased prisoners from Auschwitz to test new drugs.