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01Sophiatown was one of few areas where Black South Africans could own freehold property; that right was erased overnight.
02The removal began on 9 February 1955 at 4 a.m.; two thousand police oversaw the first convoy of trucks.
03The suburb was renamed 'Triomf' in 1960 and filled with white working-class housing; the name wasn't reverted until 2006.

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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.

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01The Kanun was transmitted orally for centuries; it wasn't written down until Franciscan friar Shtjefën Gjeçovi compiled it in 1933.
02One article of the Kanun fixes the price of a man's blood at 'twelve oxen' — the base unit of honor debt.
03Dukagjini lived contemporaneously with Skanderbeg and reportedly feuded with him personally.

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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'

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01Koresh legally married 14-year-old Rachel Jones in Texas in 1984, with her parents' signed consent.
02The Branch Davidians had legally purchased over 300 firearms and 150 hand grenades before the 1993 raid.
03Koresh claimed exclusive right to impregnate all female members; he called their children 'the new Davidians.'

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Original Soviet space dog environmentally controlled safety module used on sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights

01Dezik and Tsygan became the first dogs to survive a space flight on July 22, 1951 — aboard a suborbital rocket.
02Comet and Shutka were aboard a capsule lost at sea; their bodies were never recovered.
03Dogs were chosen over monkeys because Soviet scientists found them easier to train to sit still in a pressurized suit.

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01Schwarzman's 2007 birthday party at the Park Avenue Armory cost an estimated $3 million and featured Rod Stewart.
02Blackstone's IPO that same year valued Schwarzman's personal stake at roughly $7.8 billion.
03He later donated $100 million to Yale, $150 million to MIT, and $188 million to Oxford — each naming a building.

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01Jones's documentary 'Trader' filmed him forecasting a 1987 market crash before Black Monday wiped 22% off the Dow.
02He reportedly tripled his money during Black Monday by holding massive short positions entering October 1987.
03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.

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01Two farmworkers, one aged 15, killed Terre'Blanche with a panga and a club on April 3, 2010.
02He was found face-down in his bedroom; his dogs, which he famously used to intimidate crowds, did not intervene.
03The 15-year-old received a lighter sentence; the older worker, Chris Mahlangu, was jailed for life.

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