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TIL in 1994, flying home from the U.S., Russian President Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to stop over in Ireland and meet the Taoiseach (prime minister). Yeltsin overslept, so his men claimed he was too unwell to leave the plane and they flew on to Moscow, leaving the Taoiseach standing on the tarmac.

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