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TIL that the Syndey Opera House is considered one of the worst project managerment failures of our time. It was 10 years late, 14 times over budget, the architect never saw it completed and the project manager never worked on another project in his career (he became a lecturer at Hawaii Uni)

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b8M9 TIL there is a Penny Lobby in the United States to keep the one cent coin in circulation even though it is produced at a loss. The lobby was hired by Jardin Zinc Products, who is the sole provider of penny blanks to the U.S. Government.
5Yn99 TIL that the mother of actor Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story) had him when she was 15, and was murdered when he was 5, in 1967. The case was considered a suicide until McDermott requested a new investigation in 2012.
DX0g TIL the first black president in North America was Vicente Guerrero, the second president of the Republic of Mexico in 1829. He is known for abolishing slavery in Mexico forty years before Lincoln would do the same on the US.
EgPWd TIL that in Early 1994, O.J. Simpson filmed an unaired television pilot for NBC titled “Frogmen”. Starring as a former Navy SEAL, Simpson received “a fair amount of” military training - including the use of a knife…
P1p7Z TIL that, Nominated 49 times for the Nobel Prize without ever winning it, Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, also discovered the Matilda effect.