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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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