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01De Kock's unit at Vlakplaas once blew up three activists and scattered the remains across two provinces.
02He gave evidence against his political masters in exchange for two life sentences, implicating cabinet ministers.
03Paroled in 2015; he personally apologised to widows of men he had ordered killed.

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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Langton's ant after 11,000 steps. A red pixel shows the ant's location.

01The 'highway' pattern — a repeating 104-step diagonal corridor — emerges reliably around step 10,000.
02Christopher Langton described the ant in 1986; the highway emergence remains unproven from first principles.
03The ant is Turing-complete: given an infinite grid, it can simulate any computation.

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01The surrender ceremony was held at Ramna Race Course, Dhaka, before a crowd of thousands.
02Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi signed for Pakistan; his army had held East Pakistan for nine months.
0393,000 soldiers surrendered — more than the German capitulation at Stalingrad in 1943.

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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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01In 2017, the CDC reported a newborn infected with group B strep traced directly to the mother's placenta capsules.
02Some practitioners eat placenta raw in smoothies; others sauté it with onions and garlic as a post-birth meal.
03No controlled study has confirmed placentophagy's claimed benefits for mood, milk supply, or iron levels in humans.

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01The St. Kinga's Chapel underground is 54 metres long, 18 metres wide, and 12 metres tall — hewn entirely from salt.
02The mine stretches across 300 kilometres of tunnels on nine levels, mined continuously since the 13th century.
03Salt chandeliers appear to glow amber because the mineral is slightly translucent; the light travels through the carved crystal.

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01The burning saint's card ritual was secretly recorded by the FBI during a 1989 Patriarca family ceremony in Medford, Massachusetts.
02Membership is exclusively blood-Italian; the rule held so strictly that the Commission debated it formally in 1956.
03A made man cannot be killed without prior Commission approval — the rule Genovese broke by ordering Anastasia's murder.

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01Hetty Green's fortune of roughly $100 million in 1916 equals over $2.5 billion today — all self-managed.
02Her son Ned's leg was amputated after she allegedly delayed treatment to avoid medical fees.
03She lived in cheap boarding houses and ate cold oatmeal, despite being America's wealthiest woman.

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