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TIL that birth certificates produced for children born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project read “P.O. Box 1663” as the place of birth.

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x61Wb TIL I learned that a cornerstone of the Robert E. Lee Memorial on Monument Avenue in Richmond included a time capsule containing, among other seemingly innocuous items, a picture of Lincoln lying in his coffin.
E1aEo TIL that the cottage where Ulysses Grant finished his memoirs is now an historic monument and is kept how it was when he died. On his desk is a large bottle of liquid cocaine. Park rangers check it annually to make sure it is all there.
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xVWgg TIL William Randolph Hearst went to great lengths to shut down the production of Citizen Kane, going so far as to purportedly arranging for a naked woman to jump into director Orson Welles' arms at his hotel room; a photographer would also be hiding to take a "salacious" photo of them.
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