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01Taichang Emperor died on September 26, 1620 — his 29th day on the throne, cause officially undetermined.
02Court official Li Kezhuo supplied the red pills; he was later exiled but the formula remained secret.
03The 'Red Pill Case' became one of the Three Great Cases of the Wanli era, debated for centuries.

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01Hobby Lobby paid $3 million in civil fines and forfeited 5,500 artifacts to the U.S. government in 2017.
02The smuggled cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals entered the U.S. labeled as 'tile samples' from Israel.
03The Museum of the Bible, funded largely by the Green family, opened in 2017 just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

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0132 Battalion fought in over 100 combat operations between 1976 and 1993, operating deep inside Angola and Namibia.
02Its soldiers were Angolan FNLA defectors; most were denied South African citizenship after disbandment in 1993.
03The battalion's white commanding officers included Commandant Jan Breytenbach, a former Recce who recruited FNLA prisoners directly from the bush.

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A Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness

01Gas mantles contained thorium-232, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 14 billion years.
02A single crushed mantle released radioactive dust directly into the breathing air of the room.
03Thorium mantles were still legally sold in camping supply shops in the United States into the 1990s.

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Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009 until June 2020

01Trump's tweet on August 22, 2018, named Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as directed to 'closely study' the situation.
02South Africa's rand dropped 1.4% against the dollar within two hours of the tweet.
03The Fox News segment that prompted it aired only hours before Trump posted; no briefing was involved.

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01Benedetto Madonia's body was stuffed into a sugar barrel and abandoned on East 11th Street, Manhattan, April 14, 1903.
02Detective Joseph Petrosino traced the killers by matching barrel wood shavings to a specific Brooklyn cooperage.
03The case exposed a transatlantic Sicilian extortion network operating in New York — five years before the NYPD had a word for it.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01First baseman Chick Gandil organized the fix; the players received between $5,000 and $35,000, unevenly distributed.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson actually batted .375 in the Series and hit the only home run — yet was banned for life.
03Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned all eight players permanently, even after a jury acquitted them in 1921.

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01Herzog cooked the shoe with garlic and duck fat before eating it in front of an audience.
02Les Blank filmed the entire meal; the resulting short, 'Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,' runs 28 minutes.
03He made the original bet to push Errol Morris to finish 'Gates of Heaven' — and Morris did.

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01EO 9066 never named Japanese Americans — it authorized military commanders to designate 'exclusion zones' by geography.
02Roosevelt signed it just 74 days after Pearl Harbor, while Nisei were already serving in the U.S. Army.
03The order was used once to briefly exclude a handful of Italian and German Americans — then exclusively against Japanese Americans.

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