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TIL when Rita Hayworth learned the atomic bomb that was scheduled to be tested at Bikini atoll would feature her likeness, she was offended. Her husband Orson Welles later recalled she was the angriest she had ever been thinking it was a publicity stunt orchestrated by the head of Columbia Pictures.

ep8DL TIL of Enrico Matei, the man tasked with dismantling Italy's state run oil enterprise post WW2. Within 9 years, he created a behemoth that rivaled the "7 sisters", an oligopoly that dominated the world's oil supply at the time. He died in a plane crash in 1962 under suspicious circumstances
X0Xjk TIL winds of up 8,700 km/h (5,400 mph) have been measured on the exoplanet HD 189733
wL1yP TIL of John II of France, who was captured by the English, in the Hundred Years War, and held hostage in London. An exchange of hostages occurred, with his son, Louis, taking his place. When John II was informed that Louis had escaped from captivity, he voluntarily returned to England as a hostage.
rRDEw TIL: of the Merryhill museum of art in middle of nowhere Washington State, originally intended as a country mansion for entrepreneur Sam Hill, In 1917 he was convinced by a friend to turn it into “a museum for the public good, and for the betterment of French art in the far Northwest of America.”
b6yeZ TIL that cellophane is not made from plastic but is produced from plants - using regenerated cellulose derived from organic materials including wood, cotton and hemp.