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TIL British officers imprisoned in Colditz castle, an ‘escape-proof’ Nazi POW camp, tried to escape by tunneling out. They emerged instead in a German colonel’s wine cellar, where they proceeded to drink 137 bottles of wine, fill them with urine, and place them back on the shelves.

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