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TIL: One person, the not-well-known General Leslie Groves, oversaw both the Manhattan Project (the WWII program to make an atomic bomb) and the construction of The Pentagon. An underling called him both "the biggest S.O.B. I have ever worked for" & the best possible person to run the A-bomb project.

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0wBJv TIL The 1941 American movie drama 'Citizen Kane' was originally a box office flop. The movie failed to recoup its cost at the box office. Radio City Music Hall's management refused to screen Citizen Kane for its premiere. Today, Citizen Kane is considered the Greatest American Film of All Time.
J1YEV TIL despite initially targeting the youth, 49.3% of the audience of Japanese hit "Your Name" were people of older generations
AN6lo TIL In 1963 after the Kennedy Assassination, CBS producer Don Hewitt suggested to Dan Rather a plan to steal the Zapruder Film and copy it before returning the film. While Rather agreed to the idea, Hewitt had second thoughts and decided not to go through with the plan.
XNNR TIL William Shatner recorded a wake up call that was played for Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew for their last day docked at the ISS. Saying “Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission:…”
69XOX TIL Jacked Up! was a segment on ESPN showing the most violent hits in the National Football League. It was cancelled by ESPN in the wake of concussion studies that showed a correlation with violent football collisions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.