gnostek1 / 2A column of Bulgarian Comitadjis captured during WWI in Thessaloniki .
01Komitadji cells operated under a strict internal code: betrayal to the Ottomans meant death by the band's own hand.
02Rival Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbian komitadji murdered each other over village loyalty oaths throughout the 1890s–1900s.
03The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization used komitadji terror to provoke Ottoman reprisals and radicalize peasants deliberately.
gnostek1 / 17Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation
01Weimar inflation peaked at 29,500% per month in October 1923; a postage stamp cost 10 billion marks.
02The German government printed money to pay World War I reparations; by 1923, paper notes were cheaper as fuel than firewood.
03A new currency, the Rentenmark, was introduced November 15, 1923 — one Rentenmark exchanged for one trillion old marks.
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01Dzhumagaliev had his teeth replaced with white metal, earning him the nickname 'Metal Fang.'
02Party guests unknowingly ate kebabs made from his female victims on at least one confirmed occasion.
03He escaped a psychiatric facility in 1989 and was not recaptured for two years.
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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.
gnostek1 / 2"Queens" of Mysore : left, Krishnaraja Wadiyar III 's first wife, Devajammani has a discoloration around the mouth, thought to be due to the blowing of variolation dust in the nose ("nasal insufflation"). Right, his second wife shows the…
01Ottoman variolation predates Jenner by at least 70 years — recorded in Istanbul by 1670.
02Smallpox killed roughly 400,000 Europeans per year in the 18th century before inoculation spread.
03Variolated children received live smallpox; about 1 in 50 died — versus 1 in 3 from natural infection.
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01Chestnut consumed 76 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in exactly 10 minutes in 2023.
02A protestor rushed the stage and tackled him mid-competition; Chestnut subdued them without stopping eating.
03He has won Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 16 times — more than any other competitor in history.
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01Muhammad's actual target was his ex-wife Mildred; the 10 random killings were designed as camouflage.
02He had trained Malvo, then a teenager, for months before the 2002 attacks began.
03Muhammad was executed at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on November 10, 2009.
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01Nigersaurus had up to 500 teeth packed into a wide, straight-edged muzzle shaped like a vacuum nozzle.
02Each tooth lasted only 14 days before a replacement pushed it out — the fastest tooth-replacement rate known in dinosaurs.
03The skull bones were so paper-thin that CT scanning was required just to understand its basic anatomy.
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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.