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Illustration of a bottle jack from Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

01Smoke jacks were installed in English great-hall chimneys as early as the 1550s.
02The mechanism used a horizontal fan wheel mounted inside the flue, driven purely by convection current.
03Leonardo da Vinci sketched an identical device in his notebooks before any English installation is recorded.

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01The scroll Schneemann read contained a real letter from critic Annette Michelson mocking her as merely 'erotic.'
02She performed it at 'An Evening of Erotic Film' in New York, 1975, standing naked on a table.
03The act reframed the vagina as an archive — a place from which critical theory could be formally extracted and cited.

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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.

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01Booker consumed 49 glazed doughnuts in 8 minutes — roughly one every 9.8 seconds.
02He weighed approximately 400 pounds during his competitive eating peak and stood 6 feet 3 inches.
03Off the circuit, Booker works as a New York City Transit subway conductor and records rap music.

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01Hani was killed with a Z88 pistol; Waluś had previously stalked Nelson Mandela as a potential target.
02A white Afrikaner neighbour, Retha Harmse, wrote down Waluś's number plate and called police within minutes.
03Waluś was finally paroled in 2023 after the Polish government intervened on his behalf for years.

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01Nobel's brother Ludvig died in 1888; a French paper mistakenly ran Alfred's obituary instead.
02Dynamite, patented in 1867, replaced unstable nitroglycerin — Nobel mixed it with diatomaceous earth.
03Nobel left 94% of his estate, roughly 31 million Swedish kronor, to fund five annual prizes.

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01The level 'Effect and Cause' is widely cited as one of the greatest single game levels ever designed.
02Titanfall 2 sold modestly on release in 2016, sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty launches.
03The time-rewind mechanic runs both environments simultaneously in memory, swapping the player between them in real time.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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01Jones's documentary 'Trader' filmed him forecasting a 1987 market crash before Black Monday wiped 22% off the Dow.
02He reportedly tripled his money during Black Monday by holding massive short positions entering October 1987.
03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.

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