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01Andrews swallowed 27 swords simultaneously, the highest count ever verified by Guinness.
02Each blade must pass the pharynx and travel the full length of the esophagus into the stomach.
03The act takes years of conditioning — early practitioners regularly perforated their own esophagi.

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01We'wha spent six months in Washington D.C. in 1886, received by society as a dignitary and cultural ambassador.
02The Zuni lhamana role — neither man nor woman — was a recognized, honored identity across generations of Pueblo life.
03We'wha's intricate textiles were collected by the Smithsonian, where they remain as artifacts of a living tradition.

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01Each claw measured up to 91 cm (36 inches) — longer than the arm of an average adult human.
02When first discovered in 1954, the claws were so bizarre scientists thought they belonged to a giant turtle.
03Despite the claws, its teeth were tiny and leaf-shaped — built entirely for plant matter.

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01Eight victims were killed in four separate incidents along a 23-mile Virginia National Park Service road.
02Investigators believe the perpetrator may have impersonated a law enforcement officer to approach victims.
03As of 2024, no suspect has ever been charged; the FBI lists the Colonial Parkway murders as unsolved.

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01One of the 72 objects on the table was a loaded pistol; a stranger pressed it to her head.
02After six hours she walked toward the audience; they fled rather than face her gaze.
03Her clothes were cut from her body with scissors; a thorn was pressed into her throat.

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01Physio Steph Brennan bit the capsule himself; the blood on his lips exposed the fraud immediately.
02The substituted player, Tom Williams, was later found to have also cut his own lip with a scalpel.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years over the scheme.

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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 Great Bath. The Roman bath itself is substantially intact but everything above the level of the pillar bases is of a later date.

01130 curse tablets — defixiones — have been recovered from the Bath spring since excavations began in 1979.
02Many curses were written in retrograde script, presumably to make them readable only by the goddess below.
03Stolen bath towels, clothing, and coins appear more often than love or death in the curses — mundane grievance as ritual.

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01The LHC's superconducting magnets operate at 1.9 Kelvin, colder than the cosmic microwave background.
02On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the Higgs boson's discovery to a room where Peter Higgs wept.
03Each proton beam carries the kinetic energy equivalent of a 400-tonne train at 150 km/h.

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