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TIL that Edith Piaf was named after Edith Cavell, a British nurse in WW1 Belgium, who saved the lives of soldiers on both sides and helped 200 Allied men escape German-occupied Belgium before being shot by the Germans for treason, and who is now included in the Church of England Calendar of Saints.

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