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01The coronation consumed $22 million, roughly one-third of the entire country's GDP for that year.
02Bokassa personally beat schoolchildren with a cane during the 1979 Bangui massacre that finally ended French support.
03After exile and return, a Central African court sentenced him to death — then commuted it; he died free in Paris, 1996.

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01Receiver was built in seven days for the 7DFPS game jam in 2012 by Wolfire Games.
02The game models hammer, safety, cylinder, and magazine as independent mechanical states that interact realistically.
03Its procedurally generated levels mean no two runs share the same room layout or enemy placement.

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01Liu Cixin formalized it: broadcasting your location is a death sentence, so every civilization goes quiet.
02The theory assumes all life competes for finite resources across a universe with no referee.
03It reframes the Fermi Paradox — the silence isn't absence, it's every civilization holding its breath.

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01Soros shorted £10 billion in a single day, forcing Britain to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
02The UK Treasury spent an estimated $27 billion in reserves trying to defend the pound — and failed within hours.
03Black Wednesday cost British taxpayers roughly £3.4 billion; Soros personally cleared over $1 billion by market close.

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A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William 's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066

01The Bayeux Tapestry stretches 70 metres long but is only 50 centimetres tall, stitched in eight colours of dyed wool.
02It was likely made in Canterbury by English embroiderers, commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William the Conqueror's half-brother.
03A Halley's Comet appears in scene 32, depicted as an omen above figures pointing upward in visible alarm, dated to 1066.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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01Fausto-Sterling estimated in 1993 that 1.7% of births involve intersex traits — approximately 1 in 59 people.
02She named the three intermediate categories 'herms,' 'merms,' and 'ferms' in a paper in The Sciences magazine.
03She later partly retracted the five-sex framework while maintaining that the binary itself was a medical construction, not a natural fact.

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01The Scipionyx specimen, nicknamed Ciro, was found by an amateur in southern Italy in 1981.
02Its liver is preserved well enough to suggest dinosaurs had a reptile-style liver, not a bird-style one.
03The fossil is roughly the size of a sparrow — yet contains more biological data than most adult specimens.

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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.

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