No matter what edition you pick up, you'll find a bunny hidden somewhere if you look close enough. You might not have noticed it, but there's a hidden bunny on every Playboy magazine. It featured model Pam Rawlings on the cover. 11. The November 1972 issue of Playboy is the best selling edition of the magazine till date. She's appeared on the cover for a record 12 times. 10. Pamela Anderson holds the record for gracing the cover of Playboy magazine for the maximum number of times. 9. Hugh Hefner is one the biggest champions of gay rights.īack in 1955, he'd published Charles Beaumont's 'The crooked man' in Playboy a story about a heterosexual man living in a homosexual world. Playboy magazine was started with a $1000 loan from Hugh Hefner's mother. The lucky men are, Peter Sellers, Burt Reynolds, Steve Martin, Donald Trump (LOL!), Dan Aykroyd, Jerry Seinfield, Leslie Nielsen, Gene Simmons, Seth Rogen & Bruno Mars. 7. Till date, only 10 men have graced the cover of Playboy. 6. Although Marilyn Monroe had posed for Playboy's first centrefold, Hugh Hefner could never meet her. 5. Romanian model Loredana Chivu's father killed himself when he found out that she'd stripped for Playboy. The first edition came out in the year 1970. 4. Playboy holds the distinction of being the first men's magazine in the world to be published in Braille. Hefner pays a 'hefty' rent of $100 a year for the mansion. The Playboy mansion is owned by Playboy Enterprises. 3. Hugh Hefner doesn't own the Playboy mansion. Hence, he named it Playboy one month before the first issue was to go for publication. Hugh Hefner wanted to name it 'Stag Party' but then (thankfully!) realised that a magazine by the same name already existed.
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2. Playboy was almost named 'Stag Party'. 1. Hugh Hefner was only 27 years old when the first Playboy issue came out in 1953. Like these mind-blowin' ones listed right here. But even the world's most famous magazine (arguably) has some really unknown facts. Before Hustler, before Penthouse, and waayyyyy before Maxim, there was Playboy. Playboy might've decided to let go of its NSFW image and become totally SFW with its decision to stay away from nudity, but it still remains the quintessential men's magazine.