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neDDY TIL children’s writer and cartoonist Shel Silverstein worked for Playboy Magazine in the 1960’s
Y9dZ TIL during a 1964 hoax, a Swedish journalist exhibited paintings done by a chimpanzee under the name Pierre Brassau. The journalist was testing whether critics could tell the difference between true avant-garde modern artwork and a chimp’s work. They could not, and in fact, praised the works
oRpEo TIL: there is a Japanese word (Tsundoku) which means buying books and never reading them.
69pBZ TIL of Margaret Cavendish, the first woman to be invited to attend a session of the Royal Society and one of the first writers of science fiction.
OwER TIL Eisenhower, despite his military background, pursued a non-autocratic decision making method as President, which relied on listening to diverse views and then relentlessly pursuing common ground between his advisers.