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TIL that in 1933, Wall Street corporations conspired to overthrow the US government and install Medal of Honor recepient Smedley Butler as dictator. When Butler whistleblew the plan to Congress, he was awarded a second Medal of Honor - the only person to ever earn a second medal while still living.

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