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01At 18 days, the duck embryo has cartilage, a beak, and partially formed wings visible when cracked open.
02Balut is sold from street carts in Manila after dark, marketed as an aphrodisiac for around 15–20 Philippine pesos.
03Vietnamese balut (hot vit lon) is typically incubated longer — up to 21 days — producing a more developed fetus.

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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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01Hocquenghem published 'Homosexual Desire' in 1972, a year before Foucault's 'The Order of Things' was translated.
02He argued the anus is the one orifice capitalism cannot productively colonize — therefore, liberation lives there.
03Hocquenghem died of AIDS in 1988 at 41, after publicly refusing to hide his diagnosis.

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01Pizarro's 168 men killed an estimated 2,000 Inca soldiers at Cajamarca; not one Spaniard died.
02Atahualpa filled a 22-by-17-foot room with gold and silver to buy his freedom.
03He was strangled by garrote in 1533 despite paying the ransom in full.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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01The original Xbox was bundled with Halo: Combat Evolved, selling 8 million units in its first two years.
02Bungie designed the ring's open landscapes specifically to make players feel dwarfed by alien architecture.
03The Flood parasite, introduced midgame without warning, pivoted the entire tone of the campaign in a single corridor.

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01Players hum into the Wii remote's mic to pacify aggressive sharks — no weapons, no struggle.
02The game features over 300 real species, each with naturalist notes written in a diver's field-journal style.
03A character named Oceana joins the player on dives, pointing out creatures by name as they pass.

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01Michael told his companion 'I think I can make it' before swimming an estimated 12 miles to shore.
02Journalist Carl Hoffman found oral testimony in 2014 from Asmat elders describing eating a white man matching Rockefeller's description.
03The Dutch colonial government quietly suppressed a 1961 investigation report implicating specific villages.

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01He was officially listed in Guinness from 1980 until his death in 1986 as age 120.
02Japanese researchers found the 1865 birth record belonged to a grandfather of the same name.
03His likely true birth year of 1880 would still place him among the oldest verified humans.

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