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TIL that Robert Catesby, not Guy Fawkes, was the true mastermind of the 5 November 1605 Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes, famous today, was just the explosives expert, while Catesby inspired and recruited the conspirators and planned to place James I’s daughter Elizabeth on the throne.

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