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TIL -The remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017"

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5Y1jB TIL about Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens. During the Nazi Occupation, the Archbishop spoke out about the deportation of the Jewish population in Greece. When threatened by the Nazis to be executed by firing squad, he sarcastically responded with a request to hung instead as it was "tradition".