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TIL November 19th is World Toilet Day

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WkPBd TIL a Belgian businessman was instrumental to the Manhattan Project's success. Realizing uranium's importance, he shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he simply responded: "You can have the ore now. It is in New York. I was waiting for your visit"
LQvdm TIL As a teenager Bernhard Riemann finished all 900 pages in Legendre's book on the Theory of Numbers in six days. Riemann later challenged what the dimension of real space was and what geometry described real space, ideas too far ahead of its time to be appreciated by most scientists of that time
gO57 TIL Michael Jordan was not cut from his high school basketball team, instead he was placed on JV due to his coach’s “No sophomores on Varsity” rule.
mxZRO TIL Rats in a cage with drugs don't use drugs if they're given enough to do.
M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.