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TIL that Woody Harrelson’s father assassinated a Texas Judge in 1979

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e0XQD 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.
KDg6 TIL an Indian businessman had 15 goldsmiths working for 15 days to construct him a shirt made out of solid gold which cost $230,888.
Mj07 TIL that only about 12 rats per year enter Alberta, Canada and are quickly killed by provincial rat control specialists before they can breed. Alberta is the largest rat free populated area in the world.
Bg8DD TIL of Margaret Clitherow. She was tortured to death via crushing, her own door being used, and refused to enter a plea agreement. She was pregnant at the time and has since been venerated as a Saint
pVP4 TIL when regulators were considering limiting the use of flame retardants in furniture, a doctor gave up his liscense after telling lawmakers false stories of babies who suffered fatal burns while on cushioning that lacked flame retardants. The industry secretly paid him $240,000 for his testimony.