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TIL between 1990-1994, Bashar Al Assad was an eye surgeon in London and was described as geeky and quiet. His boss and colleagues recalled him as humble and whom nurses thought exemplary in reassuring anxious patients about to undergo anaesthetic.

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nWVeY TIL that the last warlord of China lived until 2001. He fought both Japan and Chinese Communists; he later converted to Christianity and moved to Hawaii, where he died at age 100. Some of his children still live in the U.S. and are now presumably Americans.
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