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TIL Roger Bowen, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the 1970 film MASH, died one day after the death of McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the television adaptation of the film

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oBAlA TIL the word 'assassin' comes from the order of Hashashins, a sect from the middle ages. Young boys were believed to be shown paradise by giving them cannabis (hashish). The leader would ask them to e.g. kill someone, 'so he could get them back to paradise' afterwards. They complied.
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