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TIL that the Manhattan projects main security was run by Dorothy Mckibbin

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P1PNe TIL that the British were the first to call the sport "soccer," as a shortening of "association football"
9nnQ TIL: France and Netherlands share a land border . It’s in the Caribbean on Saint Martin - the smallest inhabited island divided between two countries
OG7Aa TIL that “rock, paper, scissors” is a 2,000-year old game that originated in China. It made its way to Japan, where it was spread worldwide in the early 1900s. Past names included “frog, slug, snake” and “fox, village head, hunter.”
Vnm0 TIL the inventor of the ATM proposed a 6 digit bank PIN but switched it to 4 digits because it was the longest string of numbers that his wife could remember.
eWEJ TIL Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”