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TIL that Shirley Temple led an extremely successful life as a diplomat after her childhood acting career. She was present in Czechoslovakia when the Soviets cracked down on them. Later after the fall of the USSR, she was the head of establishing diplomatic relations between the US and Czechoslovakia

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