01God kills Job's ten children, 7,000 sheep, and 3,000 camels on a bet with Satan.
02The prose frame—where Job is rewarded—was likely added centuries after the original poem was written.
03At the end, God mocks Job from a whirlwind for 71 verses without answering a single question.
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01Antony left his own fleet and boarded a smaller vessel to chase Cleopatra's retreating squadron.
02Octavian captured or sank roughly 200 ships; Antony's abandoned army surrendered seven days later.
03Cleopatra had brought her personal treasury aboard — the fleet may have been covering a financial retreat.
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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.
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01MacArthur personally approved the immunity agreement in 1947, confirmed in a declassified memo held at the National Archives.
02He presided over the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal while simultaneously ensuring Unit 731 staff were never named in it.
03The US paid Ishii's team $250,000 in cash for their complete experimental archive — equivalent to roughly $3 million today.
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01Ehlers-Danlos syndrome eliminated enough collagen that his skin detaches from fascia like loose fabric.
02The 15.8 cm stretch was verified by Guinness in 1999 — the skin returned to position unaided.
03He also stretched neck skin over his lower face, covering his mouth completely.
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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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01Senator Joseph Lieberman named Night Trap by title in a 1993 Senate subcommittee hearing on video game violence.
02The game was originally developed for the unreleased NEMO console in 1987 — six years before its Senate debut.
03Sega pulled Night Trap from shelves voluntarily during the hearings; it was later re-released on Steam in 2017.
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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.
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01The border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs through houses, restaurants, and shops in Baarle-Hertog — marked by crosses on the floor.
02The municipality consists of 22 Belgian parcels inside the Netherlands, with 8 Dutch counter-enclaves inside those Belgian parcels.
03During WWII, the border's precise location determined which shops could stay open under German occupation — residents shifted furniture to the Belgian side.