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Sea otters hold hands while sleeping, so they don’t drift apart.

One fast food burger may contain meat from a 100 different cows.

John Wilkes Booth was 27 years old when he shot Abraham Lincoln, dying from a gunshot wound, 14 days later.

The 27 Club, coined for famous rock musicians all dying at 27, includes Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse and Pigpen, of the Grateful Dead.

In 1958, when American film producer, Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor’s 3rd (out of 7) husband’s plane went down killing him and 3 others, she too, was supposed to have been on the plane, but at the last minute stayed home.

Benjamin Franklin created the first lending library in Philadelphia in 1737.

Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.

Elvis Presley’s last words were, “I’m going to the bathroom to read,” where he was later found dead in 1977 at age 42.

The American Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh, one of its bloodiest, in Hebrew means, Place of Peace.

When Winston Churchill visited FDR, he liked roaming the White House naked at all hours of the day and night, so Eleanor had him moved to Blair House known as the Little White House, so Winnie could flash in private.

In 2013, Donald Trump sued comic Bill Maher for calling his father a monkey, ultimately dropping the lawsuit. Melania, who clearly didn’t attend beauty school,  cuts his hair.

President U.S. Grant is buried in New York City because we were the only ones who said, Julia, his wife, could be buried alongside him, after Arlington and West Point said no.

A dairy cow will produce 30% more milk listening to music, as long as it’s not country.

If you put Viagra in a vase with water, flowers will stand straighter.

Audrey Hepburn fell in love with William Holden on the set of their film, Sabrina,  refusing his marriage proposal because he had had a vasectomy that in the 1950s, were irreversible, and she passionately wanted children.

Swans, penguins and eagles all mate for life while beavers, wolves and bats have flings on the side.

Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandparents while his birth mother, June Nicholson, pretended to be his sister. He only found out who his real mother was when he turned 37.

Actor Martin Sheen, at 36, suffered an almost fatal heart attack on the set of Apocalypse Now causing Francis Ford Coppola to use a photo double till he recovered.

Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, succeeding Franklin Roosevelt, never went to college.

Writer, Kurt Vonnegut and his wife, photographer, Jill Krementz, occupied different floors of their New York townhouse after Krementz refused to give him a divorce, living that way till he died in 2007 from falling down his front steps, hitting his head, lapsing into a coma he never came out of.

Teamster President, Jimmy Hoffa’s body was never found because after he was whacked by his best friend who felt, if he had to go, it was only right that he gave Jimmy the two quick shots to his head, was immediately cremated at a nearby mob owned funeral home.

Cary Grant allegedly, according to an ex girlfriend, wore and preferred women’s underwear.

Marilyn Monroe loved to read and was often late because she was finishing a chapter.

Susannah has been known to make a bowl of freshly whipped cream eating it, smeared on Oreos, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

Things you now know.

SB