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TIL that before Joseph Stalin ruled Russia he performed bank robberies to fund the communist cause

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QOA6 TIL in 1846 during the Mexican-american war, a group formed called “St. Patrick’s Battalion” that consisted of Irish Catholics. They faced discrimination in the US, so they switched to fight for Mexico.
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