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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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01Super Mario Galaxy's soundtrack was performed live by a full orchestra — a first for the Mario series.
02The game's smallest planets are roughly 10 feet across in scale, making Mario a giant on his own worlds.
03A second player could join solely to catch and hold stardust, a gentle cooperative role for a younger sibling.

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01The dividing line between Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd runs through Germany to this day, each operating independently.
02Together the two chains operate over 10,000 stores across more than 20 countries.
03Theo Albrecht was kidnapped in 1971 and held for 17 days before being released for a reported ransom of 7 million DM.

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01US pilots described the slaughter as a 'turkey shoot'; some refused further passes over the column.
02The carnage stretched 60 miles from Kuwait City toward Basra along a single road.
03Photos of charred Iraqi soldiers in their vehicles, published worldwide, pressured Bush to call the ceasefire.

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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 portrait is built from a single child's handprint cast, repeated thousands of times across the canvas.
02The painting was attacked twice during the 1997 Royal Academy 'Sensation' show — ink thrown, then eggs.
03Hindley's mother publicly begged the Royal Academy not to exhibit it; the Academy exhibited it anyway.

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01Menchú dictated her entire autobiography in Spanish over eight continuous days to anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray.
02She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, becoming the youngest recipient at the time, at age 33.
03Her testimony helped document over 200,000 civilian deaths and disappearances in Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

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01Valachi mistook Joseph Saupp for a Genovese hitman and crushed his skull with an iron pipe in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, 1962.
02To avoid execution for Saupp's murder, Valachi agreed to testify — becoming the first made man to confirm the Cosa Nostra's existence publicly.
03His 1963 Senate testimony named 317 mob figures and introduced the word 'Cosa Nostra' to the American public.

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01Hardin killed his first man at fifteen, shooting a formerly enslaved man named Mage after an argument.
02He studied law in prison and was admitted to the Texas bar in 1894 — one year before he was shot dead.
03Shot in the back of the head in an El Paso saloon by constable John Selman on August 19, 1895.

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