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Hugh Hefner's father, a public accountant, turned him down when he needed money to start Playboy as he did not think the magazine was a good business investment. However, as he was about to leave, his mother took him aside and gave him a $1000 cheque from her savings to help his venture

John Lennon referenced his beating women in the lyrics to Getting Better. In a Playboy interview he said. "I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.""

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1. In October 1976 Bill Cosby and Tommy Smothers were at a Playboy Mansion party, when Cosby punching Smothers in the head. Smothers had publicly scolded Cosby for not taking a stand on political issues of the day like civil rights.

2. The longest interview Martin Luther King Jr. ever gave to a publication was to Playboy

3. Brooke Shields was a full frontal nude model for the Playboy publication "Sugar and Spice" at 10 years of age.

4. Brooke Shields had featured in a Playboy publication called Sugar and Spice when aged only 10 years old in 1975.

5. 10 year old Brook Shields posed nude for for a Playboy publication. A judge ruled it "non pornographic" except to "perverse minds".

6. Brooke Shields posed for the Playboy publication Sugar 'n' Spice full frontal nude in make up. She was 10 years old at the time.

7. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson's work has appeared in every single issue of Playboy Magazine since it began publication.

8. Jean Bell was the first black person to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine and also one of the first African-American Playmates of the Month as Miss October 1969. Bell posed nude again for Playboy in December 1979 and disappeared from public life

9. Playboy has an annual college fiction contest open to all students age 18 and older. First-place winner will receive $3,000 and publication in Playboy while runners up receive $300 and a year's subscription to Playboy

10. Playboy was a public company for 39 years

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