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TIL that, barred from working by the Nazis as a Jewish actor, Leon Reuss tricked them into celebrating him as an Aryan idol by adjusting his dialect to that of mountain farmers, growing his beard, bleaching his hair by bathing every 10 days in diluted hydrogen peroxide, & claiming to be a peasant.

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M8r8 TIL a company is attempting to create a community of tech workers aboard a cruise ship anchored 12 miles from the US sea border so that they don’t have to obey labour laws or get work visas.
ANZ7B TIL that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has a sunscreen protection factor (SPF) of 1.2 million on its sunshield
EgDO7 TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
eZW5 TIL In 2010, Finland became the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right.
ANgdn TIL not only was Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the WTC on 9/11, but with his camcorder he captured everything from the 2nd plane hitting to both towers collapsing. While he has released screenshots, he has declined to publish the full tape, feeling it was too intimate to be tastefully shown to the public.