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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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01Robles Ávila commanded troops in Zapatista campaigns across Guerrero state, earning his colonelcy through documented battlefield service.
02When soldiers or civilians used feminine address, Robles Ávila was known to respond with his pistol drawn.
03The Mexican government formally recognized him as a veteran of the Revolution when he was in his nineties, in the 1970s.

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01Sutch stood in 40 elections without a single win, from 1963 until his death in 1999 — a record unmatched in British politics.
02His Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto proposed votes at 18 and all-day pub opening hours — both later became law.
03He ran against Margaret Thatcher in her own Finchley constituency in 1983, receiving 235 votes to her 27,453.

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01Sejanus had eliminated Tiberius's son Drusus — likely by poison — to clear his own path to power.
02His children were executed; his daughter, still a virgin, was first assaulted by the executioner because Roman law forbade killing virgins.
03After his fall, the Senate ordered every statue, inscription, and monument bearing his name destroyed — a full damnatio memoriae.

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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 'menu' listed prices in hundreds of thousands: a $140,000 bribe bought $16 million in defense contracts.
02Bribes included a 42-foot yacht named 'Duke-Stir,' antique commodes, and a $7,200 Victorian dresser.
03Cunningham, a decorated Vietnam ace with 5 aerial kills, wept openly when entering his guilty plea in 2005.

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Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

01By November 1923, one US dollar equaled 4.2 trillion German marks.
02Workers carried wages in wheelbarrows; thieves stole the wheelbarrow and dumped the cash.
03Wallpaper and firewood were cheaper than banknotes as fuel — Germans burned money to heat homes.

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01Albuquerque personally promised the treasure to King Manuel I of Portugal; the ship broke apart before it reached Lisbon.
02The cargo reportedly included four bronze elephants and a 30-kilogram golden throne seized from the Sultan of Malacca.
03Portugal and Indonesia both claim jurisdiction over the wreck, making any legitimate salvage legally impossible for over a century.

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01Voltaire predicted Christianity would collapse within 100 years; the Geneva Bible Society occupied his house by 1828.
02He annotated his own copy of the Bible with the word 'absurd' in the margins, repeatedly, throughout.
03Voltaire wrote over 20,000 letters in his lifetime, many mocking Scripture by quoting it back verbatim.

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