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TIL when the US government began to arrange prisoner exchanges with Japan during WWII it found that less than 10% of the people on Japan's list wanted to be repatriated. It then forged an agreement with 15 Latin American countries to ship their ethnic Japanese to the USA to expand its hostage pool

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71Gp 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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