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TIL of an Italian named Fabrizio Quattrocchi who yelled "I'll show you how an Italian dies!" while trying to remove his hood before being executed by his Iraqi kidnappers.

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mxZ5O TIL that during Russia's Stalin era, praise for the quality of any aspect of U.S. life prompted the response: "Yes, but they lynch Blacks, don't they?"
W71YB TIL Rupert Murdoch was a member of the Oxford University Labour Party, kept a bust of Lenin in his rooms and came to be known as "Red Rupert"
wRQ6 TIL humans hadn’t detected any planets outside of our solar system until 1991, just 26 years ago. Before then, we had no evidence that planets existed around any other star in the universe.
GoA1 TIL that in 1976, a Soviet pilot defected to Japan in his advanced MiG-25 fighter, which Russia demanded be returned. Japan complied, but only after allowing American engineers to examine the aircraft. Japan then shipped it back piece by piece, and billed Russia $40,000 in transport and labor costs.
Mep4K TIL there is a shortage in chemotherapy treatment medications across the USA due to the slim profit margins that medical companies make from them.