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01Cridland has had medical nerve-conduction studies confirm genuine absence of pain response, not performance.
02He passes rods through his throat without hitting the trachea or carotid by long practice of anatomy.
03He performs under the name Zamora the Torture King and has toured since the 1980s.

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Gasoline in a glass jar

01Midgley himself contracted lead poisoning in 1923 while demonstrating tetraethyl lead's safety to reporters.
02Blood lead levels in children fell 78% within a decade of the US leaded-gas phaseout in 1986.
03Midgley died in 1944 strangled by a pulley-and-rope device he invented to lift himself out of bed.

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01The letter was addressed not to a government but to a private citizen, Walter Rothschild.
02Britain simultaneously held agreements with Arab leaders implying contradictory promises over the same land.
03The phrase 'national home' was chosen deliberately — lawyers had argued 'state' carried too much legal weight.

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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 Robert Bosch Stiftung distributes roughly €200 million annually to health, education, and civil society causes.
02Bosch GmbH employs over 400,000 people across 60 countries, entirely outside stock market pressure.
03Robert Bosch introduced the world's first high-voltage magneto ignition for automobiles in 1897.

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Chapel interior

01František Rint bleached and arranged the bones of roughly 40,000 people between 1870 and 1872.
02The chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body — 206 types, repeated thousands of times.
03The ossuary was created after a 13th-century abbot scattered soil from Jerusalem across the cemetery, making burial there the most coveted in Bohemia.

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01Sue's foot bones show gout — a metabolic disease never before diagnosed in a non-avian dinosaur.
02The jaw lesions match trichomonosis, a parasite that today kills pigeons by dissolving bone from inside.
03Sue sold at auction in 1997 for $8.36 million, then a world record for any fossil.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.

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