gnostek1 / 3Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016)
01Gunther von Hagens exhibited a plastinated couple frozen mid-coitus, later removed after public outcry.
02The first Body Worlds show in Tokyo drew 2.9 million visitors in nine months.
03Donated bodies are injected with reactive polymer that replaces every cell's water and fat permanently.
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01Only the first kilometre of the cave is iced; the remaining 41 kilometres are limestone tunnels beyond the freeze zone.
02The cave was mapped by explorer Alexander von Mörk beginning in 1913; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1914, and his ashes were interred inside the cave.
03Air circulation within Eisriesenwelt keeps the ice formations frozen even when summer temperatures outside exceed 20°C.
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01In the 1978 Aix-en-Provence rape trial, Halimi argued publicly that French law's leniency for rapists amounted to state endorsement of sexual violence.
02She co-founded 'Choisir' with Simone de Beauvoir in 1971 to defend women prosecuted for illegal abortions.
03The Aix verdict — guilty with significant sentences — directly preceded France's 1980 rape law reform, the first to define rape as a crime against the person, not public morals.
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01Hajiro advanced solo on two German machine-gun positions and one sniper in the Vosges Mountains, October 1944.
02His Distinguished Service Cross was upgraded to the Medal of Honor in June 2000 — 56 years after the action.
03Hajiro's family was interned at Gila River camp while he fought in France.
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01God kills Job's ten children, 7,000 sheep, and 3,000 camels on a bet with Satan.
02The prose frame—where Job is rewarded—was likely added centuries after the original poem was written.
03At the end, God mocks Job from a whirlwind for 71 verses without answering a single question.
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01The Arabic term 'mellified man' translates literally as 'the one soaked in honey,' documented in Li Shizhen's 1596 Chinese pharmacopoeia.
02The candidate's sweat, tears, and excrement were said to turn to honey before death — the whole body crystallized.
03No physical specimen has ever been confirmed; historians debate whether the practice was myth, metaphor, or literal trade good.
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01Meditations was written in Greek, not Latin, and titled by others — Aurelius gave it no name.
02He wrote most entries on the Danube frontier during the Marcomannic Wars, between battles.
03The text contains zero political advice; it is entirely directed at disciplining himself, not others.
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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.
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01A specialized organ behind each eye generates heat, warming the retina by up to 28°C above seawater.
02Warmer retinas process light signals faster, giving swordfish a crucial reaction-speed edge over cold-blooded prey.
03Swordfish can reach 60 mph, making the heated-eye system essential for tracking fast-moving targets in dim water.