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TIL when doctors realized that Rudolph Valentino would die (at age 31 in 1926) due to disease, they withheld the information from him, which was common for the time. Valentino was briefly conscious and chatted with his doctors about his future, but soon lapsed into a coma and died a few hours later.

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