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TIL On March 3, 1876, residents of Olympian Springs, Kentucky, experienced a strange event known as the "Kentucky Meat Shower," where pieces of raw meat fell from the sky over an area of about 100 by 50 yards for a few minutes.

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6Eg8l TIL Richard Feynman, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was hounded by the FBI until he sent them a memo to leave him alone as he’d helped build the atomic bomb. When J. Edgar Hoover found out about it, he also sent out a memo telling them not to pursue Feynman unless told otherwise.
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