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- TIL of Basil Zaharoff. In the 1880s he sold the Greeks a submarine. Then told the Turks the Greeks have a submarine. So the Ottoman Empire bought two submarines. Then went on to tell the Russians about the Turks having a submarine, and Russia bought two as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/basil_zaharoff 10 comments europe
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