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TIL that Victorians use to take family photos with their recently dead loves ones.

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WAmA TIL Benjamin Franklin once sent classified letters to American revolutionaries detailing how the Brittish were attempting to decrease American morale by gradually suppressing basic liberties, effectively making Franklin one of the first American “whistle-blowers”.
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