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TIL that a UK documentary once showed video footage of an IRA group using Lybian weapons including a truck mounted Anti Aircraft gun, shooting down a British helicopter. The footage turned out to be from Arma2, a video game. The IRA really did blow up a helicopter in 1994, but with a mortar.

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