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01Wadlow's size 37AA shoes required custom construction; he could not feel them due to nerve damage.
02A faulty leg brace caused a fatal infection; he died July 15, 1940, eighteen days after his 22nd birthday.
03At death he was 8 ft 11.1 in and still growing — there was no biological ceiling in sight.

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A laundry copper

01The copper boiler held up to 20 gallons; clothes, lye soap, and biological waste boiled together for hours.
02Monday was legally and socially fixed as washday across Victorian Britain — neighbors tracked compliance.
03Copper boiler scalding was the leading cause of burns in women aged 20–45 in 19th-century England.

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Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

01Rabbis at the Council of Jamnia, c. 90 CE, debated removing Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew Bible as heretical.
02The word 'hebel,' meaning vapor or breath, appears 38 times — it is the name of Abel, whom Cain killed.
03The final two verses, urging obedience to God, are considered by most scholars to be a later editorial addition.

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01Pyrrhus won every major battle against Rome but bled out his army doing it — coining 'Pyrrhic victory.'
02An old woman in Argos threw a roof tile that stunned him; a soldier then cut off his head.
03He survived wars, sieges, and elephants, only to be downed in street-fighting by a civilian.

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01Hostages were separated by nationality within hours; non-Jewish passengers were released at Entebbe, Uganda, on July 1, 1976.
02The Israeli raid, Operation Thunderbolt, lasted 53 minutes on the ground; 102 hostages were freed.
03One hostage, Dora Bloch, was left behind in a Kampala hospital; Ugandan soldiers murdered her the next day.

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Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

01King wrote in the margins of a Birmingham newspaper because guards had initially denied him paper.
02The letter responds point by point to eight named white Alabama clergymen who called the protests 'unwise.'
03Circulated first as a pamphlet by the American Friends Service Committee before reaching millions of readers.

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01Mailer's running mate for City Council President was journalist Jimmy Breslin, who gave speeches in taverns across all five boroughs.
02The campaign seriously proposed jousting in Central Park as a substitute for committee votes on city policy questions.
03Mailer finished fourth in the Democratic primary with roughly 41,000 votes, well behind winner Mario Procaccino.

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01Individual blocks in the Cyclopean walls of Mycenae weigh up to 6 tonnes, stacked without mortar or binding agent.
02The Lion Gate lintel stone alone weighs approximately 20 tonnes and has remained in place since around 1250 BCE.
03Ancient Greeks named the construction style 'Cyclopean' because they believed only one-eyed giants could have lifted such stones.

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01The larvae of Piophila casei jump up to 15 cm when threatened; eye protection is recommended while eating.
02Eating it after maggots have died is considered unsafe — the living state signals the cheese is still 'good.'
03The EU banned casu martzu; Sardinians got it listed as a traditional food product to sidestep the ruling.

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