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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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vPlM7 TIL in 1863, Union General Joseph Hooker significantly boosted troop morale. He issued soft bread 4 times a week, fresh onions or potatoes twice a week, and dried vegetables once a week. He also improved sanitation, requiring bedding to be aired and soldiers to bathe twice a week.
QNLVX TIL Ulysses S. Grant personally disliked Napoleon, Napoleon III (he disliked him the most), and the Bonaparte family in general
QJKyp TIL Henry Heinz deliberately put his ketchup in clear glass bottles which was uncommon due to a lack of food safety standards. unethical companies used colored bottles to hide shoddy product and he worked with a chemist who went on to find foods containing gypsum, brick dust, borax, formaldehyde etc
a6mL TIL- Killer Peter Kurten, the so-called Vampire of Dusseldorf asked the prison psychiatrist shortly before he was executed by guillotine, : “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off will I still be able to hear; at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?”
5VLED TIL the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) currently under construction in Chile will have 15 times more light collecting surface than the largest optical telescope currently in use