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TIL Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved underage mistress, was also his wife's half sister

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a8pQN TIL That General Leslie Groves who was the Director of the Manhattan Project, which help develop the first atomic bomb, had previously been in charge of the construction of the office building which would eventually become the Pentagon.
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