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TIL that Captain Leopold McLaglen claimed to be a jujitsu master and trained soldiers for WW1 trench warfare. In fact he was a conman who once posed as his own brother - movie star Victor McLaglen - and ended up involved in a failed Nazi plot to assassinate "Hollywood Jews" including Charlie Chaplin

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