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TIL: Wearing glasses used to have a negative connotation as it relates to moneylenders. This led to Hitler refusing to be photographed in glasses. However, recently glasses make individuals seem smarter and defense attorneys have since used the "nerd defense" by making violent defendants wear them.

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