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TIL of the life of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian jew who was sucessively a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.

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