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Deported to Italy in 1946 as a 'dangerous alien,' Lucky Luciano ran narcotics networks and American mob strategy from a Naples apartment via transatlantic phone — for fifteen more years.

Sadao Munemori dove onto a live grenade in Italy, April 1945, absorbing the blast and saving two soldiers. He was the only Japanese American to receive the Medal of Honor during the war — but his family was in an internment camp.

Acker lifted pages of Dickens verbatim, inserted orgies and gang rapes, and called it literary theory. Arrested for obscenity in the UK in 1984; the charges were dropped.

El Cid's corpse was strapped upright on his horse Babieca and sent into battle after his death — and the Almoravid army reportedly broke and fled from a dead man.

Jiayuguan fort — the Great Wall's westernmost gate, built in 1372 — was called the 'mouth of China.' Exiles who passed through received no return road; one legend says a single leftover brick still sits unused inside the gate.

Priests called Luperci slaughtered goats, cut strips from the hides, smeared sacrificial blood on two boys' faces, then ran naked through Rome striking every woman they passed. February. Every year.

When Duccio's Maestà was carried from his workshop to Siena Cathedral on June 9, 1311, all shops in the city closed, bells rang, and the entire population walked in procession behind it — the largest panel painting of its age, at 5 metres wide, entering the city like a sovereign.

Eisriesenwelt stretches 42 kilometres into the Austrian Alps — the world's largest accessible ice cave — where wind racing through the entrance freezes meltwater into towers and archways that survive year-round despite mild summers above.

Ronald Bracewell proposed in 1960 that the cheapest way to make contact is to park a probe in a target star's solar system and wait. Something may already be parked in ours.