1919 United States anarchist bombings — gnostek

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01A New York postal clerk named Charles Kaplan held 16 bombs after spotting identical suspicious packages.
02One bomb reached Senator Thomas Hardwick; his maid opened it and lost both hands.
03The bombings triggered the Palmer Raids, which deported over 500 foreign-born radicals within a year.

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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.

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01Eight victims were killed in four separate incidents along a 23-mile Virginia National Park Service road.
02Investigators believe the perpetrator may have impersonated a law enforcement officer to approach victims.
03As of 2024, no suspect has ever been charged; the FBI lists the Colonial Parkway murders as unsolved.

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Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

01Kuru, spread by endocannibalism among the Fore people, killed an estimated 1,100 people between 1957 and 2004.
02Women and children ate the brain and organs; men ate muscle — explaining why women died at far higher rates.
03Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek identified kuru's prion cause in 1976 after living with the Fore for years.

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01Mithridates's daily poison regimen — a compound later called 'Mithridate' — was considered a universal antidote for 1,500 years after his death.
02He fought three separate wars against Rome, surviving campaigns from 88 BC to 63 BC across Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
03At his final defeat, his suicide-by-poison failed entirely; he ordered a Gallic officer named Bituitus to kill him by sword.

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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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01McCartney used the placeholder lyric 'Scrambled eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs' while writing 'Yesterday.'
02'Yesterday' holds the Guinness record for most cover versions of any song — over 2,200 recorded artists.
03He dreamed the complete melody, woke, played it immediately, and told no one for weeks out of uncertainty.

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01At least five Heaven's Gate men, including Applewhite, were surgically castrated before the 1997 mass suicide.
02Members left behind $5.75 farewell videos, each cheerfully explaining the 'next level' journey.
03Applewhite had been a music professor at the University of Alabama before his 1974 psychiatric hospitalization.

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01Cyrus recruited roughly 10,400 Greek hoplites — the 'Ten Thousand' — to topple his own brother's throne.
02He was killed at Cunaxa in 401 BC, struck by a javelin, reportedly while lunging at Artaxerxes himself.
03His Greek mercenaries won their sector of the battle, then had to march home alone through hostile territory.

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