gnostek1 / 24Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights , oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in) , Museo del Prado , Madrid
01The right panel contains a man nailed to a giant harp's soundboard, his weight stretching the strings.
02A lute player nearby has sheet music tattooed across their naked buttocks — eternally performing their sin.
03Bosch painted the triptych around 1500; no commission record, patron, or explanatory document has ever been found.
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01The SSC's ring would have been 87 km in circumference — three times the size of the LHC.
022,000 workers were laid off the day the Senate voted to cut funding, October 1993.
03The abandoned tunnels under Ellis County, Texas were briefly considered as a data center in 2021.
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01Bloomberg L.P. earns roughly $6 billion annually, almost entirely from terminal subscription fees.
02Michael Bloomberg spent over $1 billion of his own fortune across three New York City mayoral races.
03The terminal's signature beige keyboard design has remained essentially unchanged since its 1982 debut.
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01Manzanar held over 10,000 Japanese Americans in California's Owens Valley, surrounded by guard towers and searchlights.
02Interned fathers legally signed draft consent forms for sons serving in the 442nd in Italy simultaneously.
03A 1943 riot at Manzanar left two internees dead, shot by military police.
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01Samus cannot use her Varia Suit — which protects against heat — until a commanding officer says she may.
02Director Yoshio Sakamoto took full creative control and deliberately sidelined co-developer Team Ninja's combat instincts.
03Fan and critical backlash was so sustained that Other M reshaped how Nintendo discussed the Metroid series for a decade.
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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.
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01Getty's grandson John Paul Getty III was 16 when kidnapped in Rome in July 1973.
02The severed ear and a lock of hair arrived at a Rome newspaper six weeks into the standoff.
03Getty Sr. lent his son the final ransom sum at 4% interest — repayment was contractually required.
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01Caesar's soldiers killed roughly 10,000 Pompeians and captured 15,000 at Thapsus; the lopsided toll suggests a rout, not a battle.
02Ancient sources including Plutarch record Caesar falling into a seizure at the onset, carried to a nearby tower to recover while his army fought without him.
03After the battle, Caesar's own veterans executed several surrendered enemy officers on the spot — Caesar was reportedly unable to stop them.
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01Freud's 1884 paper 'Über Coca' celebrated cocaine as a cure for morphine addiction; he prescribed it directly to patients.
02His colleague Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, given cocaine by Freud to treat morphine dependence, died in 1891 of cocaine toxicity.
03Freud's biographer Ernest Jones downplayed the cocaine episode for decades; the full record was not examined until the 1970s.