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TIL that Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine is buried right next to Marilyn Monroe in Westwood Memorial Park. He paid $75,000 back in 1992 to secure the spot. He told the LA Times, "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is a opportunity too sweet to pass up."

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QNl99 TIL Explorer James Cook charted "Sandy Island" near Australia, but it does not seem to exist and was not removed from maps until 1974.
nMZW TIL The majority of LSD available in the US in the 1990’s came from UCLA Researcher William L. Pickard. He was arrested whilst converting an old nuclear missile Silo into a massive LSD Laboratory.
gMKW7 TIL three "spec scripts" -- an unsolicited screenplay written in hopes it will be eventually purchased by a film studio -- have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay: Thelma & Louise (1990), Good Will Hunting (1994), and American Beauty (1998).
MeQm TIL Average teacher salary in Switzerland in 2010 was $112000 per year
69JQ TIL that in Irish mythology, there is a story of a god divinely conceiving a child in a newlywed virgin’s belly. The women says “screw that,” aborts the child, then goes and gets pregnant with her husband’s child; the 100% human baby goes on to be a great hero.