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01The final level plays in reverse: what looks like rescue, rewound, is a woman fleeing in terror.
02The epilogue's book passages directly name the Manhattan Project and J. Robert Oppenheimer's 'I am become death.'
03Braid was built by one developer, Jonathan Blow, over three years on a personal investment of roughly $200,000.

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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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01Camarena's torture session lasted approximately 30 hours and was recorded in full on audiotape.
02His kidnappers used a doctor to keep him conscious through the ordeal — to extend it.
03The murder triggered Operation Leyenda, the largest DEA investigation ever conducted outside U.S. borders.

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Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

01King wrote in the margins of a Birmingham newspaper because guards had initially denied him paper.
02The letter responds point by point to eight named white Alabama clergymen who called the protests 'unwise.'
03Circulated first as a pamphlet by the American Friends Service Committee before reaching millions of readers.

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01Gould secretly recruited President Grant's brother-in-law to block Treasury gold sales, enabling the corner.
02Gold prices plunged 20% in minutes on September 24, 1869, wiping out brokers across the country.
03Gould had already sold his gold position before the crash he engineered; his partner Fisk simply repudiated his contracts.

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01The tape was recorded September 2005 but sat in NBC archives for eleven years before leaking.
02Billy Bush was fired from the Today show within days; Trump was elected president weeks later.
03Trump called it 'locker room talk' — a phrase that entered political vocabulary as a category of defense.

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01The Old Norse word 'berserkr' likely means 'bear-shirt' — the warrior wore the animal's hide and its soul.
02King Harald Fairhair used berserkers as a personal shock unit at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, c. 872 AD.
03Later Norse law explicitly outlawed berserk behavior — it was treated as a crime once the state no longer needed it.

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01Hostages included foreign nationals seized in earlier raids, used as shields inside an active hospital.
02Local officials were later investigated for allegedly allowing Abu Sayyaf fighters to escape the cordon.
03A Congressional inquiry found evidence that military officers may have negotiated a passage out for the gunmen.

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01Gnarr refused to form a coalition with any party whose members had not watched all five seasons of The Wire.
02He delivered a mayoral inaugural address in drag, dressed as a character from the film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
03Despite the comedy origin, Gnarr's administration balanced the city budget and improved public transit through his four-year term.

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