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TIL that at WWII, Brazil was fighting alongside the Allies in Italy. Three Brazilian soldiers fought against a large German party until running out of o ammo and dying. When the Germans discovered they were only three soldiers, they buried them and added the inscription: "To three Brazilian heroes"

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