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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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01Merckx was punched in the kidney by a fan on Puy-de-Dôme, cracking a bone mid-climb.
02He still finished second overall in 1975, riding the final weeks in documented, measurable pain.
03That punch ended his shot at a record sixth Tour de France title — he never won again.

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Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"

01China produced 25 U.S. POW confessions to biological warfare; all 25 airmen recanted upon repatriation in 1953.
02A 1952 International Scientific Commission, led by British scientist Joseph Needham, concluded the allegations were credible.
03Declassified Soviet documents suggest the confessions were coerced; no independent physical evidence has ever been verified.

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01His forces captured the True Cross from Jerusalem in 614 AD and carried it to the Persian capital.
02He assassinated Khosrow II, the emperor who had commanded him, and seized the Sasanian throne.
03His reign lasted precisely 40 days — ended by assassination — making him Persia's shortest-ruling usurper.

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01The descent drops at gradients exceeding 10%; the fatal corner offers no runoff and no barrier.
02A basalt stone memorial bearing Casartelli's relief portrait stands at the exact crash point on the col.
03Dante Rezze, a Swiss amateur, died on the same descent during the 1935 Tour de France.

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01Versailles troops executed an estimated 10,000 Communards during 'Bloody Week,' May 21–28, 1871.
02The Communards burned the Tuileries Palace and the Paris Hôtel de Ville as troops closed in.
03The Commune abolished night-work for bakers and cancelled rents — then ceased to exist in 72 days.

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01Ronald Bracewell published the probe concept in Nature in 1960, predating SETI's first radio search by weeks.
02The logic inverts SETI: instead of broadcasting, an advanced civilization sends a silent listener and waits for us to mature.
03ʻOumuamua's anomalous trajectory briefly renewed serious discussion of the Bracewell probe hypothesis among astronomers.

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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.

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01The 'bullet fees' charged to grieving families — typically around $1 Ethiopian — became a symbol of the campaign's bureaucratic cruelty.
02Mengistu was convicted of genocide in absentia by an Ethiopian court in 2006 and sentenced to death.
03He has lived under the personal protection of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe since his 1991 flight from Addis Ababa.

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