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TIL In 2023 Quebec brothers sought a right buyer for their family's small island named Corpse. The uninhabited island measuring 373 metres long with an area of about four hectares and assessed at $1,100

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788BO TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a "living portrait" of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.
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