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01Chopin died October 17, 1849; the game's story ends on that exact date inside the dream world.
02Each in-game musical piece is performed by an orchestra and corresponds to a real Chopin opus number.
03The final boss fight plays Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu — a piece he explicitly asked to be destroyed unpublished.

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A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China

01An estimated 20,000 bears are currently held on bile farms in China and Vietnam, many in 'crush cages.'
02Bear bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid — a compound now synthesized cheaply in labs, making farming medically redundant.
03Moon bears on farms are often declawed and defanged at capture; some have been caged since cubhood.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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01Rommel was in Rome celebrating his birthday; his HQ address had been fed to British intelligence incorrectly.
02Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich-Wilhelm Leutnant was killed in his bedroom by Keyes's raiding party on November 18, 1941.
03Colonel Geoffrey Keyes won a posthumous Victoria Cross for the mission — he was 24 years old.

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01The Hoxne Hoard contained 14,865 gold and silver coins, 200 gold and silver objects, and weighed nearly 8 kg total.
02A gold body-chain belonging to 'Juliane' — her name stamped in the clasp — was among the jewelry; she buried it around AD 407.
03Lawes received a full market-value reward of £1.75 million, split with the landowner; he donated part to the local church.

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01He reportedly killed the Turkic Khagan Shaba personally in single combat during the 589 AD campaign.
02Khosrow II stripped him of command after the victory; Bahram responded by seizing the Sasanian throne.
03He ruled as Bahram VI — the only non-royal usurper to hold the Sasanian crown — for about two years.

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The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.

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01Ten people were killed and three wounded across Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. in 23 days.
02The snipers fired from a hole cut in the trunk of a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
03Malvo was 17 at the time of the attacks; Muhammad was executed by Virginia in 2009.

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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.

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