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TIL the IRA tried to kill the UK Cabinet in 1991 by launching 3 mortar shells at 10 Downing Street from a specially modified Ford Transit van. One missed by 30 yards. Had any of the shells hit the target, it's likely the entire UK cabinet would have been killed

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