01The Tate Modern, MoMA, and the Pompidou each own at least one tin.
02Some tins have expanded over decades, suggesting fermentation is still occurring inside.
03Manzoni produced them in two months; he died of a heart attack at age 29, two years later.
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01Jackson was hit by three bullets from the 18th North Carolina Infantry — his own rear guard.
02His left arm was amputated; Lee said 'he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.'
03Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 — eight days after the friendly-fire volley.
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01Hughes's personal aides maintained a written codeine injection schedule; the intervals were never allowed to exceed four hours.
02He acquired Air West, Summa Corporation, and multiple Las Vegas casinos during the peak years of his dependency.
03By 1970 Hughes weighed under 100 pounds; his business lawyers conducted negotiations they could not confirm he authorized.
gnostek1 / 5The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .
01Jerry Ehman wrote 'Wow!' in red pen on the Ohio State Big Ear printout on August 15, 1977.
02The signal hit exactly the 1420 MHz hydrogen frequency SETI researchers had predicted aliens would use.
03Forty-seven years of follow-up observations have produced zero repetitions or explanations.
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01The inner Theodosian wall stood 12 metres tall and 5 metres thick, backed by a second outer wall and a flooded moat.
02The walls repelled 23 recorded sieges over 1,040 years — by Avars, Arabs, Bulgars, Russians, and Crusaders.
03On 29 May 1453, Ottoman bombards firing 600-kilogram stone balls opened the first breach in the wall's entire history.
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01Hauser could not walk on grass without excruciating pain; his feet had never touched uneven ground.
02Some 19th-century investigators believed he was the hereditary Prince of Baden, hidden to clear a succession.
03He was stabbed in a public garden in 1833; his killer left no trace — mirroring his own arrival.
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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.
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01Gödel was 25 when he published the incompleteness theorems in 1931, ending Hilbert's formalist program.
02He encoded mathematical statements as numbers — 'Gödel numbering' — so a system could talk about itself.
03The Second Theorem: no consistent system can prove its own consistency — foundations float free.
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01DeSimone arrived expecting to be 'made'; the ceremony was a staged execution ordered by the Gambino family.
02His body was never found — a point Goodfellas preserves almost verbatim in its final act.
03DeSimone had already killed at least nine people, including made man Billy Batts, sealing his fate with the bosses.