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01Miljanov's 1901 book 'Examples of Humanity and Heroism' was written after he was exiled for a political feud with Prince Nikola.
02He fought his first documented feud battle at age 16 and continued raiding until his fifties.
03He was illiterate for most of his military career; he learned to read specifically to write the book.

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Original Soviet space dog environmentally controlled safety module used on sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights

01Dezik and Tsygan became the first dogs to survive a space flight on July 22, 1951 — aboard a suborbital rocket.
02Comet and Shutka were aboard a capsule lost at sea; their bodies were never recovered.
03Dogs were chosen over monkeys because Soviet scientists found them easier to train to sit still in a pressurized suit.

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01The cover of Stern magazine ran the headline 'Wir haben abgetrieben' — 'We have had abortions' — with 374 signatories.
02Actress Romy Schneider was among the signatories, making the confession front-page news across Europe.
03Schwarzer modeled the action directly on a simultaneous French campaign featuring 343 women, including Simone de Beauvoir.

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01The Asiatic Vespers of 88 BC killed an estimated 80,000 Romans and Italians in one coordinated dawn massacre.
02Mithridates reportedly ate small doses of every known poison daily to build immunity — a practice still called mithridatism.
03Rome fought him across three separate wars spanning 40 years; he survived all three until suicide in 63 BC.

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01Barre ordered his artillery to shell the Hawiye neighborhoods of Mogadishu, killing an estimated 25,000 civilians in 1990–91.
02He had ruled Somalia for 21 years under a doctrine he called 'Scientific Socialism.'
03Somalia has had no functioning central government in the three decades since his flight — the longest such collapse of any modern state.

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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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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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01Travis weighed 200 pounds and had lived as a near-human companion — riding in cars, drinking wine, using a computer.
02Charla Nash required a full face transplant; she testified before Congress to ban private primate ownership in 2009.
03Police shot Travis four times; he retreated to his cage and died there — the 911 call is public record.

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01The dik-dik's preorbital gland sits so close to the eye that marking a twig looks like self-blinding.
02Mated pairs are monogamous for life; the male shadow-follows the female within two body-lengths at all times.
03When alarmed, dik-diks produce a sharp 'dik-dik' nasal whistle that named the entire species.

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