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Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Hoti , Ottoman Albania , 1908

01The oath was sworn before twelve male elders; after it, the woman's gender was legally erased.
02Sworn virgins could carry a Martini rifle and sit at the men's table — denied to all other women.
03The practice persisted into the 21st century; anthropologist Antonia Young documented living sworn virgins in the 1990s.

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1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.

01The Thor, launched in 1908 by Hurley Machine Company, had no electrical insulation on its motor housing.
02Alva Fisher's patent drawings show live copper contacts positioned inches above the water basin.
03Early electric washing machine electrocutions were recorded in Chicago within the first year of Thor's sale.

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01Versailles troops executed an estimated 10,000 Communards during 'Bloody Week,' May 21–28, 1871.
02The Communards burned the Tuileries Palace and the Paris Hôtel de Ville as troops closed in.
03The Commune abolished night-work for bakers and cancelled rents — then ceased to exist in 72 days.

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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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01The repository was designed to warn off humans for 10,000 years using non-linguistic symbols.
02Obama's DOE withdrew the license application in 2010, stranding $15 billion of completed work.
03High-level waste currently sits in temporary pools at 75 reactor sites across 33 U.S. states.

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01The forged Bank of America letter was exposed in December 2003 when the bank confirmed the account did not exist.
02Parmalat's total debt hole reached roughly €14 billion — nearly twice the GDP of some EU member states at the time.
03Founder Calisto Tanzi admitted diverting at least €500 million into family-owned businesses and was sentenced to 18 years.

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01Rubin drew a literal concentric-circle diagram ranking sex acts from 'good' to 'bad' — published in an academic anthology.
02'Thinking Sex' was written during the 1984 Meese Commission panic, when the FBI was raiding adult bookstores.
03Rubin named sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and fetishism as unjustly condemned — while criticizing the condemnation, not endorsing harm.

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The Anatomical Zodiac Man

01The Très Riches Heures was commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, and painted by the Limbourg brothers between 1412 and 1416.
02The February page is the earliest known Western painting to depict snow with meteorological accuracy, including drifted drifts and bare trees.
03The Limbourg brothers — all three — died in 1416, likely of plague, leaving the manuscript unfinished for sixty years.

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01Spencer's DNA conviction in 1994 was the first execution in U.S. history based solely on genetic evidence.
02His DNA simultaneously exonerated David Vasquez, who had falsely confessed and served five years for one murder.
03Spencer killed four women in the Richmond area between 1987 and 1988; he was called 'The Southside Strangler.'

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