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TIL that Dole sued and tried to shut down documentarian Fredrik Gertten from showing his movie “bananas”(following a lawsuit, workers loosing limbs because of Doles poisoning). Gerttens reply was to make a documentary, about how Dole tried stop the movie, called it"Big boys goes bananas".

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6EGa8 TIL that Alexandre Dumas (Author of The Three Musketeers, etc.) was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, hero of the French Wars of Revolution and the highest ranking officer of African descent ever to serve in a European army
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