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TIL that Francisco Macías Nguema, the first President of Equatorial Guinea, was paranoid of educated people, because he had failed the entrance exams to the colonial civil service three times - so he killed everyone who wore glasses, which he saw as a sure sign of superior educational accomplishment

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