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TIL the Presidential motorcade has 15 defined roles, including one car that is known as the “CAT” which carries a counter-assault team named “Hawkeye Renegade.”

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xVgDB TIL of Richard Colvin Cox, “the only West Point cadet to have disappeared without a trace”.
ON1e TIL Louisiana French is in decline. One million people spoke it in 1968, now only 150k-200k speak it.
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