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TIL In 1975 Brooke Shields at age 10 was photographed nude for a Playboy shoot that was signed off on by her mother.

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E1dA7 TIL that Doritos were invented at Disneyland. A food salesman noticed Disney was throwing away their stale tortillas and told them to fry them instead. He loved the resulting chips so much he got Frito-Lay to distribute them nationally.
Arvn TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) wrote the famous “Matt Foley Motivational Speaker” SNL sketch.
kJnKm TIL of Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved black Muslim scholar from the 18th century. Although his slave owners believed he had converted to Christianity, his autobiography revealed that he was still Muslim. His love for Jesus was interpreted as Christian, when Jesus is also a Muslim Prophet.
wokoY TIL that the Longest Conveyor Belt in the World can be seen from space
loe0r TIL in 2005, a glitch called the Corrupted Blood Incident in World of Warcraft caused a pandemic that killed populations of players, which attracted the attention of scientists for its implications of how human populations could react to a real-world epidemic.