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01Paris Hilton named her kinkajou 'Baby Luv'; it bit her arm severely enough to require hospital treatment.
02Kinkajous are nocturnal, arboreal, and possess a prehensile tail — entirely unsuited to paparazzi flashbulbs.
03Their diet is 90% fruit, making them major rainforest seed dispersers across Central and South America.

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01Colonel Allan MacLean was wounded multiple times before being taken by Chinese soldiers on November 29, 1950.
02The combined Task Force — roughly 3,000 men — suffered casualties above 50% before breaking through the encirclement.
03MacLean's replacement, Lieutenant Colonel Don Faith, was killed leading the breakout; he received a posthumous Medal of Honor.

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01Orbán delivered the speech in Băile Tușnad, Romania, on July 23, 2022, to an annual conservative youth camp.
02His advisor of many years, Zsuzsa Hegedűs, resigned within 48 hours, calling the text 'a pure Nazi speech.'
03Orbán specified nations where 'mixing' had occurred — including Western Europe — and called them 'no longer nations.'

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01Charles Albert signed his abdication document on the battlefield at Novara on March 23, 1849, same night as defeat.
02He died in exile in Portugal just four months later, on July 28, 1849, in a monastery in Oporto.
03His son Victor Emmanuel II, inheriting a crushed kingdom, became the first King of unified Italy in 1861.

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01Barre ordered his artillery to shell the Hawiye neighborhoods of Mogadishu, killing an estimated 25,000 civilians in 1990–91.
02He had ruled Somalia for 21 years under a doctrine he called 'Scientific Socialism.'
03Somalia has had no functioning central government in the three decades since his flight — the longest such collapse of any modern state.

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01He consumed the Cessna 150 between 1978 and 1980, eating roughly 1 kg of metal per day.
02His stomach lining was twice the normal thickness, confirmed by endoscopy, allowing metal passage.
03Ironically, bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him ill; aircraft aluminum did not.

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A Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness

01Gas mantles contained thorium-232, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 14 billion years.
02A single crushed mantle released radioactive dust directly into the breathing air of the room.
03Thorium mantles were still legally sold in camping supply shops in the United States into the 1990s.

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A slab of pykrete

01Pykrete is 86% ice and 14% sawdust, yet it deflects rifle bullets without shattering.
02Project Habbakuk's planned carrier weighed 2 million tons — dwarfing every steel warship ever built.
03A small Pykrete block was demonstrated to Allied chiefs in a Quebec hotel bathtub in 1943.

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01Doom's shareware Episode 1 was downloaded approximately 10 million times in its first two years.
02id Software's nine-person team built the engine and shipped the entire game in under 18 months.
03Doom has been ported to refrigerators, pregnancy tests, and ATMs — an unofficial benchmark for computing itself.

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