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TIL Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher, would regularly walk around the city during bombing raids to "ponder his destiny". During one such aerial bombardment in 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralysed from the waist down, remaining so for the rest of his life.

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