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TIL that Belgian businessman was a big help to the Manhattan Project. He realized how important uranium was and shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he just said, " You can have the ore now. It's in New York. I was waiting for your visit. "

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