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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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