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TIL that Italian Enrico Fermi was on the verge of developing bombs for Benito Mussolini, when he found out that Italy's anti-Jewish laws affected his wife, and sailed for the US using prize money from his 1938 Nobel Prize award. He later helped develop the nuclear bombs the US later used on Japan.

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rR6nx TIL that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some mathematical discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
4X1W5 TIL Mark Harmon's sister was married to both Ozzie Nelson's son AND Grant Tinker's son. She is also the mother of actress Tracy Nelson and musicians Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, who professional are a duo called Nelson.
oR48W TIL that the Cadbury Creme Egg began in 1963 as Fry's Creme Egg, becoming the Cadbury Creme Egg in 1971. Creme Eggs are produced by Cadbury in the UK, Hershey in the US, and by Cadbury Adams in Canada. In 2016, UK sales of the Cadbury Egg dropped sharply after the recipe was changed to cut costs.
GWXG TIL every year in the mekong river in Thailand, hundreds of fireballs erupt from the surface of the water, and nobody knows what causes them. locals believe a mythical serpent called Naga spits fire from the water. The event is known as Naga fireballs.
epyJk Today I learned of Cuxirimay Ocllo, who was the cousin and concubine to the final Incan Emperor Atahualpa. Following Atahualpa's execution, she became the concubine to Francisco Pizarro. She outlived Pizarro as well and married a man compiling the history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca.