gnostek1 / 8A 13th–14th-century scroll of the Book of Esther from Fez, Morocco , held at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris . Traditionally, a scroll of Esther is given only one roller, fixed to its lefthand side, rather than the two used for a Torah…
01The word 'God' appears zero times in the entire Book of Esther — unique among Hebrew canonical texts.
02King Ahasuerus deposes Queen Vashti for refusing to parade before guests at a 180-day drinking banquet.
03The villain Haman's ten sons are hanged after death — a detail that appears as a vertical list in the Torah scroll.
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01He renamed all twelve months after himself: Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, Pius, Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius.
02In the arena he killed ostriches with crescent-headed arrows, then waved the severed heads at senators.
03His lover Marcia, his chamberlain, and his wrestling partner Narcissus conspired together to poison then strangle him on 31 December 192.
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01Ruffians can be hired to beat piñatas to death; the candy spills are the death animation.
02Certain predator species eat others whole; if the prey species reaches zero, it never returns that save file.
03The game shipped in 2006 rated E for Everyone, despite containing species extinction as a core mechanic.
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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.
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01Six Horsa gliders landed within 47 meters of the bridge; the first touched down at 00:16, 45 minutes before H-Hour.
02The entire bridge was seized in under 10 minutes; only two British soldiers died in the assault itself.
03Pegasus Bridge was renamed after the Airborne's winged-horse emblem; a café owner, Arlette Gondrée, served the first liberated French civilian champagne.
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01The Book of Kells was created around 800 CE, likely beginning on the Scottish island of Iona before moving to Ireland.
02Under magnification, a single decorated initial reveals interlaced animals so fine the lines are less than 0.5mm apart.
03Two cats nursing four kittens appear in the margin of folio 34r — a domestic scene tucked inside sacred scripture.
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01Oxygen inside Biosphere 2 fell from 21% to 14.5% — equivalent to altitude sickness at 13,400 feet.
02Morning glories choked the crops; the crew ate their emergency seed stock to survive.
03A secret oxygen injection was pumped in, which the management initially denied to the press.
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01The coins were in near-mint condition, suggesting they were buried quickly and never circulated — someone's emergency fund, sealed and forgotten.
02One 1866-S No Motto $20 gold piece in the hoard was worth $1 million alone due to its extreme rarity.
03The couple, who kept their names private, found the cans buried in a gold rush–era mining region of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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01Leedskalnin quarried and moved 1,100 tons of coral rock solo, including a 30-ton monolith he raised without machinery.
02Neighbors who stayed up to watch him work reported seeing him sing to the stones; no tool marks were ever found.
03He built the entire structure allegedly as a monument to Agnes Scuffs, a 16-year-old Latvian girl who rejected him the day before their 1913 wedding.