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01Rioters, some deputized by police, used private planes to shoot at and drop incendiaries on Greenwood.
0235 blocks and over 1,200 homes were destroyed; 10,000 Black residents were left homeless overnight.
03The massacre was excluded from Oklahoma school curricula until a 2020 state mandate forced inclusion.

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01The Chapel of St. Kinga sits 101 meters underground and fits 400 worshippers; every surface is carved salt.
02Miners began carving in the 13th century; the cathedral took nearly 700 years of cumulative chisel work to complete.
03Salt chandeliers were constructed by dissolving and recrystallizing brine into sculptural forms rather than cutting raw blocks.

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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.

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01Colonel Allan MacLean was wounded multiple times before being taken by Chinese soldiers on November 29, 1950.
02The combined Task Force — roughly 3,000 men — suffered casualties above 50% before breaking through the encirclement.
03MacLean's replacement, Lieutenant Colonel Don Faith, was killed leading the breakout; he received a posthumous Medal of Honor.

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01Ferrer's Escuela Moderna gave boys and girls identical curricula — heretical in 1901 Catholic Spain.
02He was convicted of 'intellectual authorship' of the 1909 Tragic Week riots despite no direct evidence.
03His execution triggered protest riots across Europe, toppling the Spanish prime minister within weeks.

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01Macías banned fishing boats and private radios, sealing 300,000 people inside his personal terror state.
02He declared himself 'God' and had churches display the slogan: 'There is no God other than Macías.'
03An estimated 80,000 people were killed during his eleven-year rule — roughly a quarter of the population.

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General Tomoyuki Yamashita

01Roxas sued Ferdinand Marcos in a Hawaii court and won a $22 billion judgment in 1996 — the largest ever against a head of state.
02Japanese engineers allegedly dug over 170 tunnel complexes across the Philippines between 1942 and 1945 to conceal looted Asian wealth.
03Marcos reportedly had the golden Buddha Roxas found melted and recast to erase provenance markings.

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Artist's conception of a powerful magnetar in a star cluster

01A magnetar's magnetic field reaches 10^15 gauss — Earth's field is 0.5 gauss.
02SGR 1806-20 released more energy in 0.2 seconds on Dec 27, 2004 than the Sun emits in 250,000 years.
03At 1,000 km, the field would rewrite the quantum structure of your atoms before you felt anything.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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