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TIL Stan Lee served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He enlisted in 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served until 1945. He was part of the Signal Corps, where he worked on repairing telegraph wires and communications.

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a8VbL TIL: About Alphonse Bertillion, an anthropologist and chief of France’s Judicial Identification Services who developed and was featured in the first standardized mug shot.
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