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TIL that Charles Clyde Ebbets took the famous 1932 photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper," showing construction workers eating lunch on a steel beam high above NYC. Despite its popularity, his authorship wasn’t officially recognized until 2003, when his family provided evidence confirming his role.

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