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TIL that during WWII, Joan Pujol Garcia, a double agent that spied on Germany for the British, was supposed to recruit spies in Britain for the Germans. He made up so many fake spy names that Germany decided they had enough “agents” spying for them in Britain, and didn’t want anymore.

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