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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 outer walls of Babylon measured roughly 90 feet thick at the base, per excavations by Robert Koldewey beginning in 1899.
02Herodotus described the walls encircling a square city, 14 miles on each side, with 250 towers along the circuit.
03The Ishtar Gate, clad in blue-glazed brick with golden dragons, stood at the northern entrance to this walled city.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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01The Montagnana cello Ma left behind was crafted in Venice in 1733 and is valued at approximately $2.5 million.
02New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission located the cab within one hour using trip records.
03Ma has since performed in conflict zones and refugee camps as part of his Silk Road Ensemble, founded in 1998.

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01The Scipionyx specimen, nicknamed Ciro, was found by an amateur in southern Italy in 1981.
02Its liver is preserved well enough to suggest dinosaurs had a reptile-style liver, not a bird-style one.
03The fossil is roughly the size of a sparrow — yet contains more biological data than most adult specimens.

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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.

01The Thor, launched in 1908 by Hurley Machine Company, had no electrical insulation on its motor housing.
02Alva Fisher's patent drawings show live copper contacts positioned inches above the water basin.
03Early electric washing machine electrocutions were recorded in Chicago within the first year of Thor's sale.

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A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

01The term 'long pig' originates from Polynesian and Melanesian cannibalistic practice, not European invention.
02Missionary accounts from Fiji in the 1840s record the phrase being used matter-of-factly by islanders.
03The smell comparison is attributed to survivors and perpetrators alike, across geographically unconnected cultures.

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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.

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