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TIL: "Lunch atop a skyscraper" - one of Americas most iconic photos taken in 1932 was staged as part of photo-shoot to promote the opening of the Rockefeller centre in New York. This is just one of several photos featuring real steel workers taken as part of the same photo-shoot.

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WkajX TIL the person who has had the worlds longest name ever had a 666 letter surname, made up of 26 forenames and 1 very long surname all together.
6yQw TIL Kim Jong-un’s older brother Kim Jong-nam was supposed to be their father’s heir until he tried to sneak out of North Korea to visit Disneyland.
WWMY TIL of “Nayirah”, a girl who gave an emotionally charged but false testimony before congress of atrocities she witnessed in Kuwait, but who turned out to be the daughter of a US Ambassador and engaged in a propaganda campaign [Video in Comments]
QJmvp TIL Popeye cartoons were ad-libbed after the animation was finished, giving the characters their "under-the-bearth" mutterings
6BW8 TIL that Tommy Chong, while in jail, convinced stock broker Jordan Belfont to write a memoir about his story on Wall Street. That story turned out to be The Wolf on Wall Street