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TIL that during the Napoleonic wars, a french ship wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool. The only survivor being a Monkey in a french uniform. Since the locals had never seen a Monkey nor a Frenchman before, they concluded the monkey was a french spy and hanged the monkey.

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