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01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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01The level 'Effect and Cause' is widely cited as one of the greatest single game levels ever designed.
02Titanfall 2 sold modestly on release in 2016, sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty launches.
03The time-rewind mechanic runs both environments simultaneously in memory, swapping the player between them in real time.

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The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.

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01The Chapel of St. Kinga sits 101 meters underground and fits 400 worshippers; every surface is carved salt.
02Miners began carving in the 13th century; the cathedral took nearly 700 years of cumulative chisel work to complete.
03Salt chandeliers were constructed by dissolving and recrystallizing brine into sculptural forms rather than cutting raw blocks.

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01Titus reportedly wept at dinner if he had performed no act of generosity that day.
02He commanded the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD, during which the Second Temple was destroyed.
03He reigned only 26 months before dying of fever at 41; his brother Domitian may have hastened his death.

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01Jackson was hit by three bullets from the 18th North Carolina Infantry — his own rear guard.
02His left arm was amputated; Lee said 'he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.'
03Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 — eight days after the friendly-fire volley.

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01Aum Shinrikyo's 1995 Tokyo subway attack killed 13, injured 50 severely, and affected nearly 1,000 commuters.
02Asahara charged disciples $2,000 to drink his bathwater, marketed as 'Miracle Pond,' for spiritual initiation.
03His group also released sarin in Matsumoto in 1994, killing 8 — a less-known earlier attack.

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01The actual fight took place in a six-foot-wide vacant lot on Fremont Street, not inside the O.K. Corral.
02Billy Clanton was shot three times and kept firing from the ground; he died begging for more ammunition.
03Virgil, Morgan, and Doc Holliday were all wounded; Wyatt Earp was the only participant who was not hit.

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01The Praetorians demanded a donative of 15,000 sesterces per man to support Claudius — the first time the Guard sold the throne.
02Claudius conquered Britain in 43 CE, personally arriving for 16 days to accept the formal surrender — riding an elephant.
03His fourth wife Agrippina fed him poisoned mushrooms; he lingered, so a physician pushed a feather down his throat laced with more poison.

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