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TIL that in the 19th century, photographers used a technique called "combination printing" to create seamless images by merging multiple negatives, allowing for artistic compositions and overcoming technical limitations of early photography.

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oAVW TIL that after being seriously burned in her disappearing scene in Munchkinland, Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) refused to do a subsequent scene requiring her to ride a smoking pipe broomstick. Her fill-in was hospitalized for eleven days with serious burns when the pipe exploded.
5YpY9 TIL that the most common national holiday around the world is independence from the British.
JGrj TIL there was a non-Japanese, non-spouse American who voluntarily went to a Japanese American Internment Camp in WWII.
R7gA4 TIL General Ferdinand Foch (Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWI) said of the Treaty of Versailles “This is not a peace treaty. This is an armistice for twenty years.” The Second World War began 20 years and 64 days later.
WgD9 TIL that C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and John F. Kennedy all died on the same day - November 22, 1963.