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TIL Only 12 individuals, out of a total of 150,000 scientists and engineers who worked on the Manhattan project, were familiar with the overall project.

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XWLr TIL In 1967 Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees. He played 8 of the 29 dates, then flipped off the audience, threw down his guitar, and walked off.
VBJ4G TIL Benjamin Franklin ran the first placebo-controlled blind experiment. In 1782 King Louis XIV hired a group of scientists to investigate Franz Anton Mesmer's medical practices. Mesmer's cures were tried against nothing/fake treatments and ultimately the fakes worked as well as the 'real' cures.
yw4p TIL the US Department of Defense spends approx. $84 million dollars a year on Viagra and similar erectile dysfunction drugs.
N71wE TIL Maria Sharapova & her father arrived in Florida from Nyagan, Russia with only $700. Sharapova's father worked low-paying jobs to save up enough money to send her to IMG Academy sports school with a tuition of $35K per year. Today, Sharapova has earned $285 million according to Forbes.
5YpOR TIL in 1966 a coal waste landslide of approximately 140,000 cubic yards engulfed a village in Wales, destroying a primary school and killing 116 children within minutes.