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TIL: The American government under J. Edgar Hoover ruined Oppenheimer's life and his descendants did not get better treatment either, his daughter committed suicide by hanging at age 32.

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Bry9b TIL After capturing Moscow, Napoleon expected Tsar Alexander to sue for peace. The Tsar procrastinated, then heard that Napoleon's army was suffering from lack of supplies: so the Tsar remained absent, & after a month Napoleon had to retreat through the winter, which destroyed his army.
AY6g TIL Earth is struck by approximately 1 septillion asteroids daily. (That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroids.)
v1arB TIL Richard Nixon once called in staff to help him open an allergy-pill bottle. It was the childproof type of bottle, with instructions saying “Press down while turning.” The cap had teeth marks on it where Nixon had apparently tried to gnaw it open
X0JOR TIL that because the 1978 film Halloween was filmed in the spring, the crew placed artificial and recycled leaves on the ground, sidewalks, and/or streets to make it appear more like autumn. The leaves were raked up after each of the scenes and then sent to the next filming location.
m1dAR TIL During the 1902 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker was depicted as a parrot so he passed the Salus-Grady libel law which banned representing politicians as animals. Cartoonist all over the nation responded by drawing politicians as vegetables and inanimate objects.