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The immortal Zhang shooting at the Tiangou

01Tiangou's tail turned black during the theft of heavenly fire — a detail preserved across regional variants.
02Chinese eclipse tradition held that Tiangou was swallowing the sun; loud drumming forced him to release it.
03The Panhu myth describes a divine dog who won a princess by delivering an enemy king's head.

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01The dev team made multiple research trips inside the 30 km Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to photograph locations.
02The Zone's anomalies — invisible fields that tear flesh or cook matter — are drawn from Soviet-era folklore.
03After 15 years, a modding community still releases annual overhauls treating the game as a living archive.

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01Merckx was punched in the kidney by a fan on Puy-de-Dôme, cracking a bone mid-climb.
02He still finished second overall in 1975, riding the final weeks in documented, measurable pain.
03That punch ended his shot at a record sixth Tour de France title — he never won again.

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01Leedskalnin quarried and moved 1,100 tons of coral rock solo, including a 30-ton monolith he raised without machinery.
02Neighbors who stayed up to watch him work reported seeing him sing to the stones; no tool marks were ever found.
03He built the entire structure allegedly as a monument to Agnes Scuffs, a 16-year-old Latvian girl who rejected him the day before their 1913 wedding.

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01The group beheaded American missionary Martin Burnham's companion Gracia Burnham survived; Martin was killed in a rescue attempt in 2002.
02Abu Sayyaf received a $10 million ransom for 21 hostages taken from the Dos Palmas resort in 2001.
03The group's name translates to 'Bearer of the Sword' — beheading was doctrine, not improvisation.

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01Gnarr refused to form a coalition with any party whose members had not watched all five seasons of The Wire.
02He delivered a mayoral inaugural address in drag, dressed as a character from the film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
03Despite the comedy origin, Gnarr's administration balanced the city budget and improved public transit through his four-year term.

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Close-up of a barbed wire

01Glidden sold his patent share to Washburn & Moen for $60,000 plus royalties in 1876.
02By 1890, the open-range cattle industry was effectively dead — killed by wire, not weather.
03WWI trenches on the Western Front used an estimated 1,200 miles of barbed wire by 1917.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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01Spinoza's 1656 cherem writ listed 'monstrous deeds' as the cause — no deed was ever named or recorded.
02He argued Moses did not write the Torah and that Scripture was compiled by Ezra centuries after the events.
03The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, his biblical critique, was placed on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books in 1679.

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