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TIL: Playboy Magazine’s name was inspired by a car company

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65rl TIL that the surface gravities of Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all quite similar (within 15%) to Earth’s. Thus, the majority of planets in our solar system actually have Earth-like surface gravity.
Bmbd TIL asbestos was commonly used for fake snow in early Hollywood, including the scene in the Wizard of Oz where it snows in the Poppy Field.
pY4k4 TIL that Mao Zedong rewarded factory workers with mangoes. Then he forced people to honor the fruit and started a short-lived, but intense, mango cult.
WwEN TIL there is a common amoeba found in warm bodies of freshwater, and if insufflated (snorted) deeply into your sinus cavity, will begin to eat your optical nerve, move to your brain and eat that as well. Oh, and it has a fatality rate higher then the Ebola virus and the Bubonic plague.
KOY7G TIL AT&T forced Apple to block Skype calls on the iPhone between 2007-2009 because it competed with their own service