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TIL that Marge Simpson was featured in Playboy November 2009

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JYlwV TIL Astronauts Don't Snore In Space; the lack of gravity makes it so astronauts snore less while they’re sleeping...less gravity equals less airway obstruction.
GYvm4 TIL Billy Joel didn't want to include Just The Way You Are on his album The Stranger, but was persuaded to by Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstadt, who were recording in the same building at the time. The song became Joel's first Top 10 hit and won two Grammys.
VMVok TIL forest fires can "hibernate". When a forest fire burns hot enough, what’s left of the fire can sit over winter and smoulder, even under a layer of snow.
QJDpa TIL of the Minneapolis Skyway System, a system of footbridges that connects shops, restaurants, and residential buildings over an area of 80 full city blocks. It allows residents to live, work, and shop without ever leaving the Skyway system.
5VoJn TIL that during the Maxi Trial, the largest trial against the Mafia in history, a mobster confessed to Tommaso Buscetta, an informant, that he had killed two of Buscetta's sons. After the trial, Buscetta embraced him and said: "I forgive you because I know what it means to be in Cosa Nostra"