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TIL Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer was shot and killed because of a dispute over a hunting dog

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yere TIL the original version of the French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was lost in a fire, the master negatives were found 53 years later in a Norwegian mental institute by a janitor in a closet.
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