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TIL Playboy Magazine’s first Playmate of the Month was Margie Harrison, Miss January 1954, and not Marilyn Monroe, as is commonly said.

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GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!
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