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TIL the term "Playboy" was initially popularized by the life of Harry Kendall Thaw, a millionaire sociopath and mentally ill railroad heir who spent money lavishly to fund his obsessive partying, drug addiction, abusive behavior (including murder), and gratification of sexual appetites.

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