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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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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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01Franklin died in 1958 at age 37 of ovarian cancer; Nobel rules bar posthumous awards, so she was never eligible.
02Watson admitted in his 1968 memoir that seeing Photo 51 was the moment the structure became clear to him.
03Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel with Watson and Crick; Franklin's name appears nowhere in the prize citation.

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01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01Lyon's team was betrayed after a Malay fisherman spotted them near Merapas Island in September 1944.
02Lyon died in a firefight on October 16, 1944, paddling a rubber dinghy toward a Japanese gunboat.
03All 23 members of Operation Rimau were killed or executed — none reached Singapore harbour.

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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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01Caesar's own account, the Commentarii, records 1 million dead and 1 million enslaved across eight years of war.
02The siege of Uxellodunum ended with Caesar ordering both hands cut off every surviving defender.
03Plutarch estimated that 800 towns were sacked and 300 tribes subdued during the campaign.

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01Ruffians can be hired to beat piñatas to death; the candy spills are the death animation.
02Certain predator species eat others whole; if the prey species reaches zero, it never returns that save file.
03The game shipped in 2006 rated E for Everyone, despite containing species extinction as a core mechanic.

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01Skanderbeg won 25 consecutive battles against the Ottomans between 1443 and his death in 1468.
02He was taken from his Christian family at age nine to serve as an elite Ottoman soldier.
03Pope Calixtus III called him 'Champion of Christendom'; his helmet and sword survive in Vienna today.

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