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01Versailles troops executed an estimated 10,000 Communards during 'Bloody Week,' May 21–28, 1871.
02The Communards burned the Tuileries Palace and the Paris Hôtel de Ville as troops closed in.
03The Commune abolished night-work for bakers and cancelled rents — then ceased to exist in 72 days.

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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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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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The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine

01Apicius reportedly spent 100 million sestertii on food; when 10 million remained, he poisoned himself rather than eat cheaply.
02His cookbook, 'De Re Coquinaria,' lists recipes requiring flamingo tongue, dormouse stuffed with pine nuts, and roasted parrot.
03He reputedly drowned a live mullet in a fish sauce vat to watch it change color as it died, for aesthetic pleasure.

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01Dzhumagaliev had his teeth replaced with white metal, earning him the nickname 'Metal Fang.'
02Party guests unknowingly ate kebabs made from his female victims on at least one confirmed occasion.
03He escaped a psychiatric facility in 1989 and was not recaptured for two years.

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01The golden eagle throne alone weighed two tonnes and was cast by a French artisan firm.
02France bankrolled a significant portion of the ceremony through subsidies and military cooperation funds.
03The 6,000 invited dignitaries included no sitting heads of state — nearly all declined to attend.

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01D'Éon negotiated secretly with Empress Elizabeth of Russia on behalf of Louis XV, disguised as a woman at the Russian court.
02In 1777, Louis XVI issued a formal royal order requiring d'Éon to live permanently as a woman.
03London gamblers wagered £120,000 on d'Éon's birth sex — a legal dispute that outlasted her diplomatic career.

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01Cassander executed Roxane and her son Alexander IV — Alexander the Great's only child — in 309 BC.
02He had Olympias killed by relatives of her own victims, keeping his own hands technically clean.
03Cassander founded Thessalonica, named for his wife — a city that still exists — while erasing a dynasty.

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01Wadlow's size 37AA shoes required custom construction; he could not feel them due to nerve damage.
02A faulty leg brace caused a fatal infection; he died July 15, 1940, eighteen days after his 22nd birthday.
03At death he was 8 ft 11.1 in and still growing — there was no biological ceiling in sight.

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