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Jul 07, 2020

TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.

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Jul 07, 2020

TIL: The American Bald Eagle sounds like a seagull. The mighty screech that is often dubbed over the image of a bald eagle is actually the cry of a Red Tailed Hawk.

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Feb 03, 2020

TIL Jacques Lowe, one of JFK’s personal photographers who took some of the president’s most iconic photographs, lost his life’s work of more than 40,000 images when the vault the negatives were stored in were destroyed during 9/11. They were in the archives of the WTC.

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Jan 09, 2020

TIL Stalin extensively used photo alteration to rewrite history, having enemies who had been killed, then removed from photos to completely blot out their existence.

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Jan 01, 2020

TIL that the Russian Church Photoshoped photographs of its Patriarch wearing an enormously expensive watch far exceeding his annual salary, but the botched image doctoring, lies and excuses lead to a scandal over the lavish lifestyle of the religious leader presenting himself as a moral figure.

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Jul 24, 2019

TIL streets are almost always wet in movies. Wet pavement is photogenic and the water diffuses reflections and helps eliminate shadows caused by filming equipment and light sources.

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Jul 24, 2019

TIL streets are almost always wet in movies. Wet pavement is photogenic and the water diffuses reflections and helps eliminate shadows caused by filming equipment and light sources.

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May 30, 2019

TIL that scientists in Tel Aviv have found that soon after a bee flies past an Evening Primrose, the flower increases the sugar content of its nectar by 30%. Playing bee sounds has a similar effect, but there is no effect on the flower when other vibrations are emitted.

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