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

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AKAn TIL: That Rep. John Dingell accurately predicted the 2009 government bailouts and formation of “too big to fail” banks in a speech to Congress that was voting on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in 1999.
X0eKX TIL In 2018, 50 years after his Apollo 8 mission, astronaut Bill Anders ridiculed the idea of sending human missions to Mars, calling it "stupid". His former crewmate Frank Borman shares Ander's view, adding that putting colonies on Mars is "nonsense"
5PWR TIL That Eminem once was asked to be in a horror/comedy film. After being shown the final product, Eminem’s lawyers asked for his scenes to be removed from the film. They did not comply, and the movie is available on Netflix now.
QJE0L TIL the longest surgery to date was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from a 600-lb woman. Simply hacking it out would have killed her, so the surgeon gradually drained fluid from the cyst over the course of four days, shrinking it to 100 lb. and allowing for a successful removal.
XEPoD TIL about George and Otto, a ventriloquist act. After performing at the Adult Video Awards ceremony, they were asked not to come back, their act was too offensive. One of the first George dummies was destroyed after it got into an argument which led to the puppet being attacked with a knife.