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TIL there was a confidential Simple Sabotage directive for CIA workers to use in case of a military coup in WWII.

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EVb0 TIL that medieval English longbows could fire an arrow more than 300 yards and required so much strength that the skeletons of medieval archers can by identified by their enlarged left arms.
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