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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01Weeks before the murders, Andreas Gruber reported hearing footsteps in the attic and finding an unknown newspaper on his farm.
02All six bodies — including a 2-year-old — were found in the barn, stacked under hay.
03The case was never solved; suspects were interviewed, but the last known person to examine the crime scene skulls died in WWII bombing.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01First baseman Chick Gandil organized the fix; the players received between $5,000 and $35,000, unevenly distributed.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson actually batted .375 in the Series and hit the only home run — yet was banned for life.
03Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned all eight players permanently, even after a jury acquitted them in 1921.

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01Agnew accepted at least $147,500 in bribes while serving as Vice President, some payments made inside the White House itself.
02He resigned via a single-sentence letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, bypassing Congress entirely.
03His plea deal made him the second Vice President in U.S. history to resign — the first was John C. Calhoun, in 1832.

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01Angora wool grows up to 3 centimetres per month and must be harvested every 90 days to prevent matting.
02Ottoman sultans kept Angoras at Topkapi Palace; the breed's name derives from Ankara, the Ottoman capital.
03Modern Angoras can produce 1 kilogram of wool per year from a single rabbit — more than most sheep breeds yield proportionally.

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01The Initiation Well descends 30 meters underground via a spiral staircase of 9 floors — one for each Masonic circle.
02Owner António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro spent his entire Brazilian-inheritance fortune building the estate between 1904 and 1910.
03A network of tunnels connects the well to grottoes, a lake, and a chapel built directly over a burial vault.

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01The hypothesis proposes a single superintelligence maintains a cosmological-scale illusion blocking our view of the real universe.
02It inverts the Fermi Paradox — the sky is not empty, it's edited.
03Milan Ćirković formalized it; the 'planetarium' metaphor implies we are the audience, not the actors.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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