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TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron

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rNmo0 TIL an standard American football field is 53.3 yards wide. For more than 50 years I thought it was 50 yards wide.
P0WZ TIL when actor James Cagney received an honorary degree he surprised the university by submitting a paper on soil conservation
YpxEv TIL that in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
WkopN TIL of Conrad Veidt, the man who played the villain in Casablanca, who gave up a career as one of the highest-paid actors in Germany in '33. When forced to declare his race for the government he wrote "Juden" despite not being Jewish, because his wife was and he wouldn't renounce her.
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