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TIL Canadian-born Playboy Playmate Shera Bechard and a girlfriend of Hugh Hefner qualified for U.S. 'Genius' visa that the U.S. government reserves for "individuals with extraordinary ability"

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b66rj TIL that Johnny Appleseed planted apples for manufacturing booze and selling land to pioneers, not to help spread fruit across the land.
bgBj TIL a guy who called himself “the cookie monster” once stole a golden cookie and returned it after the cookie company donated cookies to a childrens hospital.
JYkvj TIL famous French philosopher René Descartes died in Stockholm, Sweden after contracting pneumonia at the cold and draughty castle of Queen Christina which he agreed to teach her 3 times a week at 5am.
Lkg0P TIL that during the Winter War, the Soviet Union bombed Finland, afterwards claiming they were dropping food to the "starving people of Helsinki" - the Finnish dubbed the bombs "Molotov bread baskets", and in return, called their own firebombs "Molotov cocktails", as "a drink to go with the food."
W74eL TIL Whales and dolphins, who still retain vestigial hip bones, evolved from land-dwelling even-toed ungulates (like hippos, deer, and camels) around 50 million years ago.