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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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VBrQ8 TIL in 2011 a woman was buried alive in a cardboard box by her fiancé after he attacked her with a stun gun then bound & gagged her with tape because he was "bored" with her & wanted custody of their son. She used her engagement ring to cut herself free & pull the box apart before flagging down help
nWv4r TIL In 1967, Paul McCartney forgot his passport when travelling to France to shoot a music video. He told the agents, ‘You know who I am so why do you need to see a photograph of me in a passport?’ And was let through.
oRjNE TIL that the Chinese Air Force once bombed the Forbidden City in July 1917 during the Manchu Restoration which was attempt to restore the Qing Dynasty and 11 year old emperor Puyi. A Caudron Type D aircraft was used which caused a death of a eunuch and minor damage
MoW0 TIL that Justin Bieber’s mom almost passed up the opportunity for him to record his first album because the agent that discovered him was Jewish. She said “God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label! God, you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?”
wolm1 TIL it's estimated that there's 20 quintillion animals on Earth