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TIL of Alice Denham, the only author to hold the distinction of both writing, and posing for Playboy. She did so for her book “The Deal”, both of which was published in 1956

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0wGkA TIL the British killed a higher rate of American prisoners during the American Revolution than the Japanese did during the Second World War
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