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01The Mirdita uprising of 1921 was partially funded by Italy, which supplied rifles to exploit the feud grievance diplomatically.
02The clan's leader, Gjon Markagjoni, invoked Kanun law to justify the revolt — not the League of Nations or sovereignty.
03Serbian forces suppressed the uprising within months, but the Kanun grievances were never formally addressed.

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Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere

01The 'Oh-My-God particle' had energy 3×10^20 eV — 40 million times more than CERN's LHC can produce.
02Above ~5×10^19 eV, the GZK limit predicts particles should be shredded by CMB photons en route — yet it arrived.
03Its source remains unknown; no known astrophysical accelerator within 160 million light-years can explain it.

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Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s

01The U.S. natural ice industry harvested over 25 million tons annually from lakes by 1880.
02Ice was cut in winter, packed in sawdust, and stored in insulated warehouses until summer delivery.
03A failed ice delivery on a hot day could spoil a family's entire weekly food supply by evening.

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01The 'ears' are rhinophores — chemosensory organs detecting dissolved molecules, not sound or balance.
02Sea bunnies are nudibranch sea slugs, reaching only 2 centimetres long, yet toxic enough to deter fish.
03Their bright coloration is aposematic — the prettier the pattern, the more potent the chemical warning.

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01Charles Albert signed his abdication document on the battlefield at Novara on March 23, 1849, same night as defeat.
02He died in exile in Portugal just four months later, on July 28, 1849, in a monastery in Oporto.
03His son Victor Emmanuel II, inheriting a crushed kingdom, became the first King of unified Italy in 1861.

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01Dix was a machine-gunner on the Western Front from 1915–1918, surviving four major offensives.
02His 1924 etching series 'Der Krieg' contained 50 prints depicting corpses in explicit decomposition stages.
03The triptych was hidden under a floorboard by a Dresden museum director to save it from Nazi destruction.

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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.

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01Medieval ultramarine cost more per ounce than gold; patrons had to specify it in painting contracts.
02The sole source was the Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mine in Afghanistan's Kokcha River valley, mined since 7000 BC.
03Lapis beads from Badakhshan have been found in Mesopotamian royal tombs dating to 3000 BC — a 5,000-year supply chain.

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01The LHC's superconducting magnets operate at 1.9 Kelvin, colder than the cosmic microwave background.
02On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the Higgs boson's discovery to a room where Peter Higgs wept.
03Each proton beam carries the kinetic energy equivalent of a 400-tonne train at 150 km/h.

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