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01The inner Theodosian wall stood 12 metres tall and 5 metres thick, backed by a second outer wall and a flooded moat.
02The walls repelled 23 recorded sieges over 1,040 years — by Avars, Arabs, Bulgars, Russians, and Crusaders.
03On 29 May 1453, Ottoman bombards firing 600-kilogram stone balls opened the first breach in the wall's entire history.

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01Players banged a Beltran-era trash can in the tunnel adjacent to the dugout — one bang for breaking ball, two for fastball.
02The scheme was exposed by pitcher Mike Fiers in November 2019, two years after the Astros' 2017 championship.
03MLB fined the Astros $5 million and stripped draft picks, but no player was suspended — none at all.

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01Fish mailed the Budd family a letter in 1934 describing Grace's flesh as 'sweet and tender.'
02X-rays before his execution revealed 29 needles he had inserted into his own groin over the years.
03He claimed to have 'had children in every state,' suggesting up to 100 victims across decades.

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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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01Theia is estimated to have been roughly the size of Mars — about half Earth's diameter.
02The impact was so energetic it likely vaporized Earth's entire surface and re-melted the mantle.
03Lunar rock isotopes match Earth's mantle so precisely they're nearly indistinguishable — Theia became us.

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01He executed the entire officer corps of the Ten Thousand at a single banquet in 401 BC.
02The leaderless Greek soldiers then elected new officers on the spot — one was the historian Xenophon.
03Tissaphernes himself was later beheaded on Artaxerxes II's orders, his head sent to the king as proof.

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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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01Lyon's team was betrayed after a Malay fisherman spotted them near Merapas Island in September 1944.
02Lyon died in a firefight on October 16, 1944, paddling a rubber dinghy toward a Japanese gunboat.
03All 23 members of Operation Rimau were killed or executed — none reached Singapore harbour.

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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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