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During the lead-up to the Iraq War, the United States had alleged that Iraq owned bioreactors, and other processing equipment to manufacture and process biological weapons. Subsequent investigations failed to find any evidence of Iraq having access to a mobile weapons lab.
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One childhood friend recalled Jim Jones shouting "Heil Hitler!" and giving the Nazi salute to German prisoners of war who were travelling through their town on their way to a detention facility during WWII.
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The South Park episode "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus" was an elaborate April Fools' Day prank on South Park fans. Angering viewers, the prank episode resulted in 2,000 e-mail complaints within a week.
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The Kindu Massacre, or Kindu Atrocity, took place in 1961 in Kindu Port-Émpain, in the Congo-Léopoldville. Thirteen Italian airmen who were members of the United Nations Operation in the Congo who were sent to deal with the Congo Crisis were killed and eaten by the locals.
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Chud or Chude is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.
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