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TIL that despite having some of the top physicists in the world, including Werner Heisenberg, Nazi Germany was unable to build a nuclear weapon partly because they did not want to affiliate with "Jewish Physics" causing many scientists to defect to the US to help with the Manhattan project.

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4P5a TIL Bill Murray accepted his role in Ghostbusters only to finance a film which he had co-written. GB was the highest-grossing film of 1984, but Murray was so upset for the failure of the other film that he took 4 years off from acting to study philosophy and history at the Sorbonne, Paris.
8bRV TIL that Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white school in the south, attended class by herself because parents of white students would not let them learn with her, and she ate only food she brought from home because a woman repeatedly threatened to poison her
QNX6e TIL Kansas City barbecue history originated with Henry Perry. He came from Shelby County, Tennessee, near Memphis, and began serving barbecue in 1908.
YpoEv TIL Henry VIII wanted to cancel his wedding with Anne of Cleves because he found her extremely ugly. He felt he was bamboozled by his advisors, who greatly exaggerated her beauty and brought him portraits of her that looked nothing like the real Anne in order to get him to agree to the marry her
jNoAQ TIL that Aldous Huxley's descriptions of the effects of alcohol on fetuses in Brave New World predate the scientific recognition of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by more than four decades.