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TIL Hugh Hefner paid $75000 for the burial spot next to Marilyn Monroe stating "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up".

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YWJv TIL that as a child, the French designer Christian Louboutin, being darker-skinned than the rest of his family, invented his own history of being Egyptian, due to his fascination with Pharaohs. At the age of 50, Louboutin discovered that his biological father was in fact an Egyptian man.
nEEd TIL that when she was young Marilyn Monroe’s mentally unstable mother tried to kidnap her from her foster parents by stuffing her in a duffle bag.
Z8alB TIL that blood from horseshoe crabs is harvested every year and is the single best way to test for bacterial toxins in the manufacture of any medical substance or device put into the human body.
9Y4Vm TIL that a group of Belgian authorities have trained giant rats to sniff out land mines planted in Africa
4ky16 TIL that Gates of the Arctic in Alaska is the northernmost National Park in the U.S. It’s three times the size of Yellowstone but sees fewer visitors in a year than Yellowstone gets in a single day.