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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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01Dzhumagaliev had his teeth replaced with white metal, earning him the nickname 'Metal Fang.'
02Party guests unknowingly ate kebabs made from his female victims on at least one confirmed occasion.
03He escaped a psychiatric facility in 1989 and was not recaptured for two years.

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01The scroll lists roughly 65 tons of gold and silver buried across 64 locations — an implausibly large figure for the era.
02It was written in a Hebrew dialect so unusual that scholars initially couldn't agree on its translation for decades.
03Unlike every other Dead Sea Scroll, the Copper Scroll is purely a ledger — no theology, no narrative, just coordinates.

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01Manzanar held over 10,000 Japanese Americans in California's Owens Valley, surrounded by guard towers and searchlights.
02Interned fathers legally signed draft consent forms for sons serving in the 442nd in Italy simultaneously.
03A 1943 riot at Manzanar left two internees dead, shot by military police.

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01Donaghy placed or received bets on 57 games between 2005 and 2007, including playoffs he was assigned to work.
02He was identified not by the NBA but by an FBI investigation into organized crime connections.
03After release, Donaghy alleged in a lawsuit that NBA officials instructed referees to extend a 2002 Western Conference Finals series.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01The Martel Chamber inside Škocjan is 308 metres long, 89 metres wide, and 146 metres tall — among Earth's largest underground spaces.
02The Reka River's underground section drops 163 metres in elevation before emerging as the Timavo River near the Adriatic coast.
03The caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, partly for their underground ecosystem of endemic species.

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01Hanssen was paid roughly $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over his 22-year espionage career.
02He was finally caught in 2001 not through surveillance but because the FBI bought his own KGB file from a Russian source.
03The FBI had investigated a Soviet mole for years and their prime suspect was a different colleague — never Hanssen.

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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.

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