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TIL an 1894 video of a man snorting tobacco and sneezing is the 2nd oldest copyrighted video in history. Thomas Edison employed its creator as well as that of the oldest copyrighted video, "Blacksmith Scene" where three men strike an object with hammers and then share a beer

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