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

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b99l0 TIL More gunpowder was used in an area of Manhattan to make Central Park than was used at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
a8MoA TIL that in 2023, a 45-year-old Belgian man named David Baerten faked his own death, but then showed up to his own funeral to teach his family a “life lesson.” He was reportedly dismayed that his family had grown apart.
9wbXm TIL Elephants can distinguish human voices by sex, age, ethnicity, and language.
VM7aD TIL Geologists consider the Hudson River Valley to be a Fjord.
5VDBR TIL about Ri Jong-yol, a North Korean defector who lived in the South Korean consulate for two months after escaping during the International Math Olympiad in Hong Kong.