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TIL that on January 2, 1911 revolutionary leader Pascual Orozco Jr. ambushed and killed a number of federal troops in service of the then-standing Díaz regime. He ordered the uniforms of the troops be stripped and mailed back to Díaz with a note saying: "Here are the wrappers, send me more tamales".

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