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TIL of a Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a WW1 British soldier, spy, intelligence officer, explorer, and naturalist who was a fraud as well as a psychopath and murderer—even killing his own wife when she nearly exposed him for submitting stolen museum birds as his own discoveries.

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