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Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945)

01Fermi posed the question over lunch at Los Alamos in 1950; his colleagues remembered it for decades.
02The Milky Way is old enough for a civilization to have colonized every star system 1,000 times over.
03Michael Hart's 1975 paper was the first formal treatment; the silence still has no consensus explanation.

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01He consumed the Cessna 150 between 1978 and 1980, eating roughly 1 kg of metal per day.
02His stomach lining was twice the normal thickness, confirmed by endoscopy, allowing metal passage.
03Ironically, bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him ill; aircraft aluminum did not.

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01Spencer's DNA conviction in 1994 was the first execution in U.S. history based solely on genetic evidence.
02His DNA simultaneously exonerated David Vasquez, who had falsely confessed and served five years for one murder.
03Spencer killed four women in the Richmond area between 1987 and 1988; he was called 'The Southside Strangler.'

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01Koedt cited Masters and Johnson's 1966 laboratory research, which had already disproved the vaginal orgasm clinically.
02She argued Freud's 'vaginal' versus 'clitoral' hierarchy was not a clinical finding but a political construction.
03The essay circulated as a mimeograph in 1968 before formal publication, passing hand to hand at consciousness-raising groups.

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01The siege ran from May 23 to October 23, 2017 — 154 days of urban combat in a city of 200,000.
02Philippine government forces sustained 165 killed; civilian death toll exceeded 800.
03The battle displaced approximately 360,000 residents; large sections of Marawi remain uninhabitable years later.

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01The Asiatic Vespers of 88 BC killed an estimated 80,000 Romans and Italians in one coordinated dawn massacre.
02Mithridates reportedly ate small doses of every known poison daily to build immunity — a practice still called mithridatism.
03Rome fought him across three separate wars spanning 40 years; he survived all three until suicide in 63 BC.

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01De Kock's unit at Vlakplaas once blew up three activists and scattered the remains across two provinces.
02He gave evidence against his political masters in exchange for two life sentences, implicating cabinet ministers.
03Paroled in 2015; he personally apologised to widows of men he had ordered killed.

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01Stubby survived a mustard gas attack; he then learned to warn soldiers by pawing at their faces.
02He served in 17 battles across 18 months — more combat than most human soldiers in WWI.
03Stubby was promoted to sergeant after capturing a German spy by biting his backside.

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Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"

01China produced 25 U.S. POW confessions to biological warfare; all 25 airmen recanted upon repatriation in 1953.
02A 1952 International Scientific Commission, led by British scientist Joseph Needham, concluded the allegations were credible.
03Declassified Soviet documents suggest the confessions were coerced; no independent physical evidence has ever been verified.

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