Facebook wants me to upload selfie to create an account. Is this normal now?

I wanted to create a Facebook account. I've been off the platform for about 6 or 7 years now so I'm not exactly up to date with their policies but this seemed rather odd to me. So I filled up my info -name, e-email(which is relatively new and I never used for FB before) and birth-date and then it requested I do some additional verification(for which there is a 180 day expiry date after which the account is lost). The …

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