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TIL the 1961 western film One Eyed Jacks was originally meant to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a script written by Rod Sterling and Sam Peckinpah, but studio disputes lead to Marlin Brando directing instead, and Sterling and Peckinpah going uncredited

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p8RRG TIL in 1951, Natalie Carbone Mangini became the first female scientist at Westinghouse. They meant to hire a man but they misread her resume and gave her an interview when she showed up. As a radiochemist, she worked on the world's first full-scale atomic reactor and the first nuclear submarine.
957M TIL A Harvard Professor was able to slow light down so much to the point that it “stopped”.
E1lLX TIL that polygamy doesn’t mean one man with multiple females. The correct term for that is polygyny. Polyamory (promiscuity) is a male or female with multiple males and/or females. Polyandry is one female with multiple males and is exceedingly rare because it usually seems to devolve into monogamy.
XEaND TIL that the earliest documented alternate history scenario was written in the 1st century BC by the Roman Historian Titus Livius. The scenario included Alexander the Great surviving long enough to invade Europe and end up fighting against and losing to Rome.
D1kyV TIL David Burtka the actor of Scooter in HIMYM is acutally the husband of Neil Patrick Harris who plays Barney in said series