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Decades after it was taken, AI has helped name the Nazi in a Holocaust photograph long shrouded in mystery - and changed how we remember it.

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Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives.

Let’s start with the biggest misconception about knights’ armour, shall we? Most folk assume - understandably - that once armour was on, it was virtually impossible to move with any freedom at all.

The bill eventually passed through Parliament and implemented calendar reform on Sept 2nd, 1752, which was immediately followed by Thursday 14th - technically removing eleven days out of the month.