gnostek1 / 5U.S. representative Michael Myers , second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents
01Congressman Michael Myers was caught on tape saying 'money talks and bullshit walks' while pocketing $50,000 in cash.
02Senator Harrison Williams was filmed agreeing to use Senate influence for a fictional titanium mine in exchange for bribery.
03The sting used a fake company, 'Abdul Enterprises,' and a fabricated sheikh persona maintained for nearly two full years.
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01Pope Innocent II's 1139 ban called the crossbow 'hateful to God and unfit for Christians.'
02Richard I of England, who loved the crossbow, died in 1199 from a crossbow bolt at Châlus-Chabrol.
03A trained crossbowman needed no years of muscle-building — a peasant could kill a knight on day one.
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01Players banged a Beltran-era trash can in the tunnel adjacent to the dugout — one bang for breaking ball, two for fastball.
02The scheme was exposed by pitcher Mike Fiers in November 2019, two years after the Astros' 2017 championship.
03MLB fined the Astros $5 million and stripped draft picks, but no player was suspended — none at all.
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01Cooper jumped from 10,000 feet in a business suit and loafers into a pitch-black storm over Washington State.
02In 1980, a boy named Brian Ingram found $5,800 of the marked bills rotting in the sand of the Columbia River.
03The FBI closed its active investigation in 2016 — the only unsolved commercial aircraft hijacking in U.S. history.
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01Taichang Emperor died on September 26, 1620 — his 29th day on the throne, cause officially undetermined.
02Court official Li Kezhuo supplied the red pills; he was later exiled but the formula remained secret.
03The 'Red Pill Case' became one of the Three Great Cases of the Wanli era, debated for centuries.
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01Vanderbilt ordered New York Central trains to stop at the Harlem River bridge in January 1867, stranding passengers in the cold.
02He accumulated a fortune of $105 million by death in 1877 — the largest in U.S. history to that point.
03When a doctor told him to stop working, Vanderbilt replied he could not afford to stop; he was worth $100 million.
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01The Black Mesa Research Facility was designed as a structurally plausible underground complex spanning multiple biomes.
02Half-Life won over 50 'Game of the Year' awards in 1998, more than any title before it.
03Valve's follow-up Half-Life 2 in 2004 shipped with the Source engine, revolutionizing physics simulation in games.
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01Kendrick released five diss tracks in roughly two weeks during April–May 2024, an unprecedented pace.
02Drake's legal team sent cease-and-desist letters to Universal Music Group over specific lyrical allegations.
03'Not Like Us' became the fastest rap diss track to reach number one in Billboard Hot 100 history.
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01Pakistan's planners named the operation after Gibraltar, expecting a similar strategic seizure of territory.
02Kashmiris who were supposed to join the uprising instead led Indian forces to the infiltrators' positions.
03The operation's failure directly triggered the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, which ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire.