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TIL the former Prime Minister of Vietnam moved to Orange County after the war, where he opened and ran a liquor store

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BrYWr TIL of Laura Secord, a Canadian woman who walked 30 km (about 19 miles) to warm British troops about a planned attacked by US troops on Beaver Dams during the War of 1812. There is now a chocolate company named after her.