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TIL that infamous Wild West outlaw William Bonney aka “Billy the Kid” may have survived until 1950 under the alias Oliver “Brushy Bill” Roberts. On the night The Kid was supposedly shot and killed by sheriff Pat Garrett, one of his deputies exclaimed “You shot the wrong man!”.

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