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TIL during WW2, Krystyna Skarbek became a British spy and smuggled intelligence reports and anti-tanks guns from Hungary to the Allies. When she was arrested by Gestapo, she bit her tongue hard enough to bleed and convinced them she had tuberculosis, which made them release her.

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