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TIL that Marge Simpson was featured in Playboy November 2009

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OE0X TIL Zaftig is a Yiddish word, derived from German, that means “slightly fat in an attractive way”
RWd4 TIL in 1972 a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for over 100,000 years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.
9YL0r TIL James and Betty Jones learned what a James Beard Award was on the day that they won one.
woJjY TIL Empress Augusta and Otto von Bismarck were such rivals after the Revolution of 1848 that Augusta wrote an 18-page memorandum to her husband warning him not to appoint Bismarck and Bismarck even accused her of being a traitor who handed state secrets to the French embassy.
JYRMm TIL that Jerry Sigel, the creator of Superman, was Jewish, and that the Superman story is full of Jewish metaphor.