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TIL In 1919 Michael Keogh stopped an angry mob of 200 men (some with bayonets) from killing two right winged political agents they were beating up. In 1930 at a Nuremburg rally, Keogh recognized one of the agents he had saved. It was Adolf Hitler.

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