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TIL before his murder, James Fannin made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The Mexican soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body.

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8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.
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