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TIL fames children's author Shel Silverstein was a lead cartoonist at Playboy magazine before getting into children's books

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bmXp TIL Abraham Lincoln used to tell a long joke about a man carving a turkey at a fancy party who puts so much force into the effort that he rips a huge fart in front of everyone
Arwd TIL, that scientists in Portugal found a way to ferment coffee beans into 80 proof booze, destroying the caffeine in the process
Yx4W TIL the US Veteran’s Administration was given 387 acres in 1887 to create permanent housing for disabled veterans. The VA hasn’t allowed any new residents since the 1970’s, and leases the land for profit instead of building housing.
GYvW4 TIL Italian police officers posed as "pizza delivery boys" in order to arrest mafia boss Roberto Manganiello of Naples’ notorious Camorra mafia, listed as “one of Italy’s 100 most dangerous criminals” as he watched football in his apartment. He offered no resistance to the fake "delivery boys."
QJO5E TIL that the first scientific paper on the greenhouse effect was published in 1856 by a female scientist, Eunice Newton Foote