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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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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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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01The fix was orchestrated by Arnold Rothstein, a New York gambler who bankrolled $80,000 to throw the series.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and drove in six runs during the 'thrown' Series, yet was banned alongside the conspirators.
03All eight players were acquitted at trial in 1921 but were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Landis the next day.

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01The FBI recorded Blagojevich using the phrase 'fucking golden' to describe Obama's Senate seat on December 9, 2008.
02He solicited a $1.5 million campaign contribution in exchange for the appointment of a specific named candidate.
03Donald Trump pardoned Blagojevich in 2020 after he served 8 of a 14-year federal prison sentence.

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01Axolotls regenerate cardiac and neural tissue within weeks; no scarring, only original architecture restored.
02They are critically endangered in the wild, surviving in a single lake system: Xochimilco, Mexico.
03Aztec mythology held the axolotl sacred as the god Xolotl's disguise to escape his own sacrifice.

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01Hostages were separated by nationality within hours; non-Jewish passengers were released at Entebbe, Uganda, on July 1, 1976.
02The Israeli raid, Operation Thunderbolt, lasted 53 minutes on the ground; 102 hostages were freed.
03One hostage, Dora Bloch, was left behind in a Kampala hospital; Ugandan soldiers murdered her the next day.

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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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01Ray's welcome tape ran for 30 minutes, narrating planned tortures in clinical, methodical detail.
02The trailer contained over $100,000 worth of purpose-built medical and restraint equipment.
03No bodies were ever recovered; the confirmed victim count remains unknown, possibly in the dozens.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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