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TIL when the Beatles played Canada, Ringo Starr was accompanied onstage by a bodyguard and police sharpshooters because he received death threats from anti-Semites. To which Ringo replied, “Some people decided to make an example of me, as an English Jew. The one major fault is I’m not Jewish.”

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