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TIL that during the Jonestown Massacre the attorney for Jim Jones risked his life to get a suitcase and then trekked through the jungle with it. An author who escaped with him assumed it had vital supplies they’d need to survive. It had a hairdryer he needed to hide his combover from the press.

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