01Booker consumed 49 glazed doughnuts in 8 minutes — roughly one every 9.8 seconds.
02He weighed approximately 400 pounds during his competitive eating peak and stood 6 feet 3 inches.
03Off the circuit, Booker works as a New York City Transit subway conductor and records rap music.
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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.
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01Huguely had sent Love an email warning 'I should have killed you' weeks before her death in May 2010.
02Love was found face-down in a blood-soaked pillow; Huguely had kicked her bedroom door off its hinges.
03Huguely's family settled a civil suit for $7.5 million; he is serving a 23-year prison sentence.
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01Parton's $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 was credited in Moderna's early vaccine research acknowledgments.
02When Tennessee proposed a capitol statue of her, she personally requested the legislature withdraw the bill.
03She established the Imagination Library in 1995, which has since mailed over 200 million free books to children.
gnostek1 / 11The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round from the GAU-8 Avenger
01Approximately 300 tons of depleted uranium ammunition were expended by US forces during the 1991 campaign.
02DU penetrators burn on impact, scattering radioactive oxide dust inhaled by soldiers and civilians alike.
03Basra pediatric wards recorded a sharp rise in childhood leukemia and birth defects through the 1990s.
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01Receiver was built in seven days for the 7DFPS game jam in 2012 by Wolfire Games.
02The game models hammer, safety, cylinder, and magazine as independent mechanical states that interact realistically.
03Its procedurally generated levels mean no two runs share the same room layout or enemy placement.
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01Holt's body was never found despite one of Australia's largest naval search operations covering 10 square miles of coastline.
02A 1983 biography floated the theory that a Chinese submarine extracted Holt, who was allegedly a spy — taken seriously enough to be officially denied.
03Australia named a swimming center the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in his honor.
gnostek1 / 6Original Soviet space dog environmentally controlled safety module used on sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights
01Dezik and Tsygan became the first dogs to survive a space flight on July 22, 1951 — aboard a suborbital rocket.
02Comet and Shutka were aboard a capsule lost at sea; their bodies were never recovered.
03Dogs were chosen over monkeys because Soviet scientists found them easier to train to sit still in a pressurized suit.
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01The SSC's ring would have been 87 km in circumference — three times the size of the LHC.
022,000 workers were laid off the day the Senate voted to cut funding, October 1993.
03The abandoned tunnels under Ellis County, Texas were briefly considered as a data center in 2021.