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TIL that the famous WW2 photo of a British milkman in the Blitz was faked. The photographer got his assistant to dress up to create a positive image that wartime censors wouldn’t block.

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nXd TIL that humans can reliably identify, by smell, blood relatives - but not husbands or wives. Preadolescent children can detect their full siblings but not half-siblings or step-siblings.
b6mlN TIL when she was 10 years old, the Vatican dispatched an investigator to determine if Shirley Temple was actually a middle-aged dwarf. After her film career, she was a U.S. diplomat to two countries, and became the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States.
L7mm TIL that 70% of all Canadian blood plasma is actually sourced from the United States, where donors are regularly paid for their donations.
XbDj TIL that the sadistic captain of the guard in The Shawshank Redemption is also the voice actor for Mr Krabs
VBMBQ TIL that actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the key person behind a WW2 water-borne deception force that created enough German uncertainty that they held back an entire German Reserve Division in Sicily at the time of the Allied landings there. Called the Beach Jumpers, also known as the "BJ factor".