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TIL In 1966 the Spanish army built an enormous cemetery in Burgos for the final scene of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The graveyard now hosts 4,500 graves bearing the names of the living people who each donated €15 towards the 2018 restoration of the cemetery to its original movie set condition.

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V9Dk TIL Russia is rapidly depleting its Reserve Fund and is expected to run out of cash in 2017. The fund contained $91.7 Billion at the end of 2014 and contained $32.2 Billion as of September, 2016. The drawdown is largely due to oil prices that continue to lag budgeted targets.
W745o Today I Learned Chiune Sugihara, the famous diplomat who wrote visas to 6,000 jews, was born on January 1, 1900, the first day of the first month of the first year of the 20th century.
gQaA TIL the total cost of the Challenger Space Shuttle recovery by the Navy ($13.1 million) was equal to the street value of a duffle bag of cocaine found during the search
b6PQ TIL That the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched AFTER voyager 2
R7KR9 TIL the term "in a New York minute" was first recorded in the mid-twentieth century in Piney Woods, Texas.