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TIL: That the British singer James Blunt famous for his songs "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover" prevented WW3 during the Kosovo War in 1999 by disobeying direct orders to attack the Russian army. He was an officer at the head of 30,000 NATO troops.

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