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North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise

01The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons of napalm on Korea — more than in any prior conflict in history.
02Napalm B, the refined thermite-gel formula, was tested and standardized for mass production during the Korean War.
03By 1953, U.S. Air Force reports noted there were few remaining targets in North Korea not already destroyed.

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Fritz Haber , 1918

01Haber's nitrogen fixation process now sustains roughly half of all human beings alive on Earth.
02He directed the April 22, 1915 chlorine attack at Ypres — 168 tons released in one morning.
03His wife Clara, also a chemist, shot herself with his service pistol days after Ypres.

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01Turnspit dogs worked in pairs, alternating hour-long shifts inside the wheel to keep roasts turning evenly.
02A preserved Turnspit specimen named 'Whiskey' is still on display at Abergavenny Museum in Wales.
03Once kitchen machinery replaced them in the 1800s, the breed was considered useless and died out within decades.

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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.

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Fengdu Ghost City

01The Darvaza crater is approximately 70 metres wide and 30 metres deep, still burning since 1971.
02Turkmenistan's president ordered it extinguished in 2022, citing lost national revenue — the fire ignored the decree.
03Temperatures at the crater rim reach high enough that the surrounding sand vitrifies into glass.

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01Paine wrote Part I of The Age of Reason in a single night before his arrest in December 1793.
02He was saved from the guillotine because a chalk mark on his door—the execution signal—faced inward, not out.
03The book was banned in Britain, and booksellers who sold it were sentenced to years of hard labor.

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01Computer models show the tail tip could exceed 340 m/s — the speed of sound — generating a crack audible for miles.
02The tail contained roughly 80 vertebrae, more than almost any other structure in the animal kingdom.
03Diplodocus's neck was held nearly horizontal, not upright — it grazed low like a vacuum cleaner the length of a bus.

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01Donaghy placed or received bets on 57 games between 2005 and 2007, including playoffs he was assigned to work.
02He was identified not by the NBA but by an FBI investigation into organized crime connections.
03After release, Donaghy alleged in a lawsuit that NBA officials instructed referees to extend a 2002 Western Conference Finals series.

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01The U.S. State Department placed a $1 million bounty on Sahiron under the Rewards for Justice program.
02Sahiron lost one arm in combat; he continues to command active operations in Sulu province.
03He has survived multiple AFP offensives, drone surveillance campaigns, and internal Abu Sayyaf leadership purges.

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