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TIL an actor in Nazi Germany was fired for being Jewish. He grew a beard, dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen and returned to the stage claiming to be a self-taught actor. He was praised by the Nazis as "proof of the superiority of Aryan blood."

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