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01Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection at noon on October 21, 1600 swung 30,000 men to Tokugawa's side mid-battle.
02The battle lasted just six hours; it ended 150 years of civil war in Japan.
03Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory established a shogunate that closed Japan to the outside world until 1853.

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01Nobunaga deployed 3,000 firearms simultaneously — an unprecedented concentration for 16th-century Japan.
02Takeda Katsuyori lost roughly 10,000 men, including almost his entire elite cavalry force, in one engagement.
03Rotating volley fire at Nagashino predates its European adoption by decades, suggesting independent tactical invention.

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01Hauser could not walk on grass without excruciating pain; his feet had never touched uneven ground.
02Some 19th-century investigators believed he was the hereditary Prince of Baden, hidden to clear a succession.
03He was stabbed in a public garden in 1833; his killer left no trace — mirroring his own arrival.

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01Amphetamines and a half-empty brandy flask were found in Simpson's jersey pocket after his death.
02He collapsed twice within 500 metres of the summit; mechanics propped him upright and he pedalled on.
03A granite memorial on Mont Ventoux still receives cycling caps, bidons, and coins left by passing riders.

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01Jackson was hit by three bullets from the 18th North Carolina Infantry — his own rear guard.
02His left arm was amputated; Lee said 'he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.'
03Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 — eight days after the friendly-fire volley.

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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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01Maradona's knuckle contacted the ball at the 51st minute; Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser never consulted his linesman.
02He scored the 'Goal of the Century' in the same game, beating five England players in 11 seconds.
03Maradona admitted the handball on camera in 2005, calling it 'a little with the head, a little with the hand of God.'

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01Tipton's birth sex was discovered by paramedics responding to his home in Spokane, Washington, on January 21, 1989.
02His son William Tipton Jr. stated publicly he had no idea — and that his father had been, by every measure, his father.
03Diane Wood Middlebrook's 1998 biography 'Suits Me' reconstructed Tipton's life from the outside in, since Tipton left almost no personal records.

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01The coronation consumed $22 million, roughly one-third of the entire country's GDP for that year.
02Bokassa personally beat schoolchildren with a cane during the 1979 Bangui massacre that finally ended French support.
03After exile and return, a Central African court sentenced him to death — then commuted it; he died free in Paris, 1996.

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