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01GoldenEye 007 sold over 8 million copies, making it the third best-selling N64 game of all time.
02The game's multiplayer was added in the final six weeks of development by a single programmer, Steve Ellis.
03Its analog stick aiming system established the twin-stick control standard that every console shooter still uses today.

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01To evade censors, the Tractatus was reprinted with false title pages labeling it a work on medicine and surgery.
02It was banned by the Dutch Reformed Church, the Catholic Index, and multiple civil authorities within three years.
03Spinoza never acknowledged authorship publicly; contemporaries confirmed it only from private letters after his death in 1677.

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01Aurelian reconquered the breakaway Gallic Empire and Palmyrene Empire within five consecutive years.
02His secretaries forged a list of men he'd condemned, then killed him before he could deny it.
03He built Rome's first defensive city wall in 700 years — still partly standing today.

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01Nine US M1A1 tanks destroyed 28 Iraqi T-72s in 23 minutes on February 26, 1991.
02The engagement was later digitally reconstructed by DARPA as a training simulation down to individual shell trajectories.
03Iraqi crews in T-72s never got a shot off at effective range against the longer-ranged Abrams.

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01The SAPS Rural Safety Unit was disbanded in 2007, citing budget restructuring, not case clearance rates.
02South Africa's overall murder conviction rate hovers near 12%; farm attack cases track even lower.
03Parliamentary testimony documented dockets physically removed from police stations before court dates.

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A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome , painted by Alberto Pisa

01The catacombs hold roughly 8,000 bodies, the oldest dating to 1599 when monks discovered their dead preserved naturally.
02Rosalia Lombardo, embalmed in 1920 at age two, is still so lifelike she is called 'the Sleeping Beauty of Palermo.'
03Sections are divided by social rank: priests, professionals, virgins, and children each occupy separate corridors.

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01Van de Velde's ball struck the grandstand rail, his own leg, and landed in deep rough — all on one shot.
02He stood in the water considering playing the submerged ball before finally taking a penalty drop.
03Paul Lawrie won the playoff at 6-over; Van de Velde had started the 18th at 6-under.

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01The 1995 Tour continued racing the day after Casartelli's death, with Stage 16 treated as a tribute ride.
02Motorola teammates finished Stage 16 holding Casartelli's bike upright across the finish line together.
03Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc faced immediate criticism for not cancelling the stage entirely.

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01Supreme's 2012 New Hampshire primary campaign included a glitter-bomb thrown at rival candidate Randall Terry during a public forum.
02He polled 833 votes in the 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary, beating two candidates who spent real campaign money.
03His pony platform doubles as an economic policy: ponies as personal transportation to reduce fossil fuel dependence.

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