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TIL the first ever selfie was taken by Robert Cornelius, an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia, in 1839. On the back he wrote “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”

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5Ydyn TIL of the Hutterites; a religious group similar to the Amish, with the exception that they utilize modern equipment and technology to run complex farming and manufacturing operations on hundreds of colonies across the Western US and Canada.
Y7MNv TIL The actor who set the record for playing the same character the most number of times was Hong Kong actor Kwan Tak-hing, who played martial artist folk hero Wong Fei-hung in 77 films. The next closest actor is Christopher Lee, who played Dracula 10 times in his career.
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