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TIL In 1993, Dalton Trumbo was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing Roman Holiday (1953). Due to Anti-Communist sentiment the screen credit and award were previously given to Ian McLellan Hunter, who had been a front for Trumbo

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VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.