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TIL of Alexis Benoît Soyer (born 1810) who was one of the first “celebrity” chefs. In addition to creating recipes, he invented a stove for soldiers to use during the Crimean war, wrote books and pamphlets on cooking, and did a lot to help the suffering in Ireland during the potato famine.

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yVJD8 TIL Atom-bomb designer Hans Bethe fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and joined Cornell University where he stayed on as Professor until he died at 98 in 2005, the last of the giants of Los Alamos. The weapon’s reality “was worse than we expected,” Bethe recalled
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