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TIL: In WWI, Capt Robert Campbell, a British POW asked the Kaiser for leave to visit his dying mother. The Kaiser agreed, if he promised to return. Campbell returned. He and other prisoners then spent nine months tunneling out of the camp, although they were later captured and sent back.

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