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TIL Nixon and Kissinger funded the kidnapping/assassination of a Chilean General who wanted to prevent civil war. CIA provided one of the conspirators with a life-insurance policy and “hush money”, while another received guns, ammunition and $50,000 in cash to carry out the plot.

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xVDjB TIL that Jackie Robinson was a baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the B. Dodgers. In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number 42 across all teams; Evey year in april every player wear his number, 42. Chadwick Boseman portrayed him in thefilm "42"
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