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01Each tarsier eye weighs more than its entire brain, yet the eyes cannot move in their sockets.
02Captive tarsiers die by deliberate head-banging — classified as stress-induced self-destruction, not accident.
03A single tarsier can rotate its head 180 degrees to track prey without moving its fixed eyes.

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01Sutch stood in 40 elections without a single win, from 1963 until his death in 1999 — a record unmatched in British politics.
02His Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto proposed votes at 18 and all-day pub opening hours — both later became law.
03He ran against Margaret Thatcher in her own Finchley constituency in 1983, receiving 235 votes to her 27,453.

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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.

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01By late 1936, roughly 70% of Catalonia's economy was under worker collectivization, not state control.
02Barcelona's tram network was collectivized and running within days of the anarchist takeover of the city.
03George Orwell arrived in December 1936 and wrote that it was the first time he had seen a town where the working class was in the saddle.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01The fix was orchestrated by Arnold Rothstein, a New York gambler who bankrolled $80,000 to throw the series.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and drove in six runs during the 'thrown' Series, yet was banned alongside the conspirators.
03All eight players were acquitted at trial in 1921 but were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Landis the next day.

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The Hereford Mappa Mundi , about 1300, Hereford Cathedral , England

01The Hereford Mappa Mundi measures 1.58 metres tall and was drawn on a single calfskin hide around 1300.
02Jerusalem sits at the precise geometric center, with the Garden of Eden positioned at the very top of the world.
03Over 500 named places, animals, and mythical peoples are inscribed across its surface, each a medieval truth.

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01The SLA's ransom demand required $2 million in free food distributed to every poor Californian — impossible to fulfill.
02Hearst was photographed holding a carbine during the April 1974 Hibernia Bank robbery, 57 days after her kidnapping.
03She served 22 months of a 7-year sentence before President Carter commuted it; Clinton later granted full pardon.

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01Doe was 28 years old and held no officer's rank when he personally led the executive mansion raid.
02The beach executions of 13 ministers on April 22, 1980 were filmed and broadcast internationally.
03Doe was himself captured in 1990, tortured, and killed on video by Prince Johnson's rebel faction.

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01The ten attackers coordinated via Pakistani handlers on mobile phones throughout the siege.
02166 people were killed across 12 sites, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
03Sole surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab was hanged in Pune's Yerwada Jail on November 21, 2012.

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