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TIL during the WWI Battle of Gallipoli, casualties were so horrific the Turks and Allied forces entered a ceasefire to bury the dead, during which the opposing armies traded cigarettes & souvenirs. After realizing their enemy weren't as evil as they thought, the Turks began to surrender en masse.

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