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TIL that after posing nude in Playboy, Drew Barrymore was sent a quilt with a note that read “Cover Up” by Steven Spielberg as a gag gift.

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M1QA TIL That Amon Goeth was charged by the Nazis for not providing enough food to the prisoners in his camp, and for violating rules regarding the treatment of prisoners
v17oL TIL that China's nuclear program sought to create both an atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, as well as an artificial satellite. Thus the program's name was 两弹一星 which translates to "Two Bombs, One Satellite".
rkd0 TIL: 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry.
GYZ44 TIL that historically, black dyes were the hardest to make. Brilliant colours or heavily-decorated clothes were legally restricted to the nobility, so successful merchants would show off their wealth by wearing all-black clothes
W7NL4 TIL that the Asian Weaver ant is consumed as a delicacy in Thailand.