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TIL: Marilyn Monroe was the first cover star of Playboy in 1953

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XE8Y8 TIL 1979 LeMans winners bought a racetrack (Road Atlanta) and started landing weed-smuggling planes on the straightaway at night to finance their multiple racing teams.
yQl18 TIL Bill The Butcher (Gangs of NY) was head of the Bowery Boys gang who's territory was Bowery street today. Mostly made up of firefighters literally fighting other gangs to have control over putting out fires. Fights between gangs would often break out and the fires were sometimes never put out.
NXOjQ TIL the linguistically closest relative to Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar, is Ma'anyan, spoked on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It has been suggested the early Malagasy migrants moved away from Borneo in the 7th century AD, based on linguistic markets
kJ7ZW TIL about Patti Lyle Collins, head of the US Dead Letter Office. She was known for her ability to deciper hard to read or incomplete addresses on mail, such as being able to deduce that a letter addressed to "Presidente Sterite, Catimoa" was meant to go to "President Street, Baltimore".
LQLjZ TIL that Mr Fantastic originally first met invisible woman (his wife) when she was twelve and he was in college. Marvel understandably retconned this decades later.