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TIL Members of the U.S. Army Special Ops and the FBI entered a room at the Revere Hotel in Boston. Finding a man sleeping, they handcuffed him, put him in the shower and interrogated him for 45 minutes before realizing the unassuming Delta pilot was the wrong guy.

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