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TIL of "Better Days" by Natalia Gutierrez Y Angelo, a 2010 Colombian song with a secret hidden message in Morse code meant for the soldiers kidnapped by the FARC (Colombian guerilla). The message was "19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope."

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