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TIL that following Marilyn Monroe’s death, Joe DiMaggio was so devastated he held a private funeral barring all the Hollywood elite, delivered roses to her grave three times a week for over 20 years, never remarried, and his last words were “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”

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697xm TIL that Quintus Servilius Caepio was a Roman statesman and general during the Roman Republic. Who after causing the Romans to lose the Battle of Arausio tried to blame Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, before stealing a vast amount of gold and silver from the Roman treasury, known as the "Gold of Tolosa."
Z8rKa TIL about the Chinese town of Qiaotou, the 'button capital of the world'. Around 60% of the world's supply of clothing buttons are produced there, as well as 80% of the world's zippers
vW97 TIL that France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks.
5YaLn TIL that the first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%
xVGvk TIL that Eartha Kitt was invited to a lunch by President Johnson at the White House. She was asked about Viet Nam and instead of giving a polite response, ranted about how horrible it was. This lead to the CIA trying to ruin her career and an effective US blacklist for over ten years