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TIL after she posed nude in Playboy at age 19, Drew Barrymore received a quilt from her godfather Steven Spielberg for her 20th Birthday with a note that read, ‘Cover Yourself Up.’

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bMkN TIL at the age of 5 years and 11 months, Ayan Qureshi took and passed Microsoft’s IT Technician Exam, making him the youngest certified computer specialist in the world.
4Dab TIL in 2010 AshleyMadison.com offered the city of Phoenix $10 million to rename Sky Harbor Intl. Airport to “The Ashley Madison Intl. Airport” for a period of 5 years. The offer was quickly declined.
R5kaj TIL English rock band "The Verve" were required to relinquish 100% of their royalties from their hit "Bittersweet Symphony" for using a sample of Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of "The Last Time," itself a rendition of The Rolling Stones song of the same name.
w0N8 TIL the Nazi’s used special buses that had their exhaust fed into the passenger compartment where they transported mentally disabled people in order to kill them.
YpvoG TIL young cattle were called "dogies" because motherless calves look potbellied, being unable to digest grass yet. Dough-guts -> Dogies