Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The greatest minds and talents in history all had to start somewhere.

Albert Einstein worked as a patent clerk.

Fashion designer Ralph Lauren joined the army as a young man before working as a salesman

for the Brooks Brothers clothing store.

But Juju McWilliams may have had the strangest start of all.

Juju Williams was born in Pasadena, California in 1912.

Her father was a successful Massachusetts politician and her mother, the Ares 2A paper company.

McWilliams grew into quite the accomplished teen.

For one, she was tall for her age, standing over her high school classmates at a whopping

6 feet 2 inches.

Her height helped on the basketball court as well.

After graduating high school, she attended college where she continued her athletic trajectory

until she took a job in New York working at an advertising firm as a copywriter.

But her life in the big city eventually ended as the war effort came calling.

McWilliams enlisted in 1942 to serve her country.

Unfortunately, the military deemed her too tall for service.

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