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TIL In 1927 Italy, Giulio Canella, a M.I.A. soldier from WW1, was "found" alive in an asylum and reunited with his "family." But a court later found he was not Canella but Mario Bruneri, a wanted criminal. Canella's widow continued living with the man and insisted he was her husband until her death.

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