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TIL that Franklin Roosevelt most likely had Guillane-Barre syndrome rather than polio

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M7E5B TIL The Old Fisherman, painted in 1902 by Tivadar Kosztka, is an oddly asymmetrical piece. It was discovered the painting contains two hidden images. Mirroring the left or the right side, two symmetrical images are created- a Godly man praying in nature, or the Devil in an industrialized landscape.
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