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"History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes."

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9/ He also dabbled in eugenics—a dark, disturbing part of his legacy.
He promoted sterilization for the “unfit” and founded a eugenics group in Michigan, the “Race Betterment Foundation.”

His health crusade had a dark edge, tied to early 20th-century obsessions with “perfecting” society.

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8/ Kellogg’s quirks didn’t stop. He invented the “vibrating chair” to shake patients healthy, pushed yogurt enemas, and once sued a guy for selling “Kellogg’s” sausages.

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8/ Contaminated Pens, Needles in Fruit, and Sea Shell Bombs:

They even planned to plant an explosive seashell where Castro dove, because he liked collecting rare ones.

But despite all the madness, Castro lived.

In fact, he once joked, “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I’d win gold.”

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7/ Mafia Hitmen:

Desperate, the CIA teamed up with the American Mafia to take Castro out.

They offered mobsters like Sam Giancana cash to poison his drinks at a Havana restaurant.

The Mob. Poison. Havana nightlife. This wasn’t foreign policy—it was a Scorsese movie.

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8/ Shockingly, in some towns in Central America, MS-13 functions like a shadow government , taxing local businesses, enforcing curfews, punishing crimes with brutal executions and even recruiting kids as young as 9 years old.

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7/ The U.S. accidentally exported MS-13.

Instead of stopping the gang problem, deportations supercharged it across El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.

MS-13 and rival gang Barrio 18 turned entire regions into war zones.