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TJ_Fox

TIL that Captain Leopold McLaglen claimed to be a jujitsu master and trained soldiers for WW1 trench warfare. In fact he was a conman who once posed as his own brother - movie star Victor McLaglen - and ended up involved in a failed Nazi plot to assassinate "Hollywood Jews" including Charlie Chaplin

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Posted Nov 3, 2025, 9:13 PM UTC

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