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Hey and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there.

And this is Stuff You Should Know.

I don't know what edition this is.

It's a good one though.

I predict.

Yeah, I didn't know much about this.

So I was when I found out I was like, wow, this is right up our alley.

Yeah, this is part of what's very frequently called a hidden history of World War I.

This is not something that a lot of people have known about for very long, although it seems

to be picking up kind of academic interest.

With this idea of people who were disfigured in the war, suffered facial disfigurements.

And I should say, I want to say now before at the outset, facial differences is the preferred

term.

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