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TIL: One of the generals in the Second Liberian Civil War tried magical invisibility spells in combat & when they failed, ran into fights nude to avoid his clothes being seen. Afterward he tried to reform his image by converting to Christianity, but the public doubted the honesty of his conversion.

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