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TIL Wilhelm Brasse was an Auschwitz prisoner assigned to take thousands of photos for five years. After WW2, the portrait photographer tried to start taking photos but was so traumatized by the ‘ghosts’ of the 'dead’ that he was unable, later saying he would 'never take another photograph’.

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VMrN0 TIL - The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 135,000 people
gMvg7 TIL that after his PhD thesis defense, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein clapped the two examiners on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it."
M7oL8 TIL that there is a better preserved exact copy of the Mona Lisa, made by one of da Vinci's students simultaneously in the same studio as Leonardo. It shows details that are not visible in the Mona Lisa anymore.
6007 TIL not long after John Lennon received his first guitar, his aunt Mimi (his guardian at the time) told him, “The guitar’s all very well, John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.” Three years later, The Beatles formed.
X0MdX TIL U.S President Lyndon B. Johnson used to give out toothbrushes with the Presidential Seal on them. He said he wanted people to think of him last thing at night and first thing in the morning.