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TIL: Olivia Newton-John and Ben Elton are third cousins

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XE8yP TIL of Leona Woods, the only woman physicist on the team which built the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the Manhattan Project. She became a mother during the Project but hid her pregnancy as not to miss work. Afterwards as a professor, she authored >200 papers in physics and astrophysics.
gMKVD TIL that, after the 1940 election, unsuccessful challenger Wendell Willkie gave FDR his full support, making wartime foreign trips as FDR's envoy & even discussing the possibility of forming a liberal third-party together after the war (which, unfortunately, neither would live to see the end of).
1DBd TIL that a newspaper posted a poll asking readers if watching Blackfish – a documentary critical of SeaWorld for keeping orcas captive – changed their opinions of SeaWorld. The results were “No.” It was later revealed that 55% of the votes came from a single IP-address … hosted by SeaWorld
ANQxB TIL that there is a fudge factory in a town called Uranus in Missouri
xVgJw TIL that when all cables were suspended form poles, the insane number of cables created a rather strange and sometimes even scary streetscape.