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TIL that this is one of the first crime scene photos ever taken, Featured is the corpse of Madame Debeinche, who was murdered in her Paris apartment on May 5, 1903 .

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1aR4P TIL that in 1935 the Nazis held a competition in which baby pictures were sent in and the "most beautiful Aryan baby" was chosen by Joseph Goebbels. The baby they picked, and used in propaganda for years, was actually Jewish; the photo had been sent in to make the Nazi party look ridiculous.
kKa4 TIL Ben Affleck met a disabled 13-year-old in an airport and has flown him to every movie set ever since, even speaking at his high school graduation.
gMPOb TIL all the dogs that have played Lassie are descended from the original actor, Pal
gMnLy TIL that in 1995, Dutch electronics engineer Jan Sloot claimed to have invented a data sharing system that could store a complete movie in eight kilobytes; he died one day before signing a deal, and despite months of searching, the system's compiler program has never been found.
e05xg TIL the Lurie family tree is considered the oldest (3000 years old, started 1037 BCE) family tree in existence. It begins with King David and continues up to the present day and includes among its members Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and many kings of Judah, and almost every Ashkenazi Jew in existence.