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01Bostrom's 2003 paper argues the probability we live in base reality approaches zero if any civilization runs ancestor simulations.
02Elon Musk claimed publicly that the odds of base reality are 'one in billions'; the argument is philosophically serious.
03The hypothesis is unfalsifiable by design — any evidence against it could itself be a simulated counter-argument.

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01In 310 BC, Agathocles invaded Africa while Carthage besieged his city — the first European to attack Carthage on home soil.
02He started as a literal potter, was exiled twice for sedition, then seized Syracuse with a sword.
03He declared himself King of Sicily in 304 BC, the first Western ruler to adopt that specific Hellenistic title.

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01The LHC's superconducting magnets operate at 1.9 Kelvin, colder than the cosmic microwave background.
02On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the Higgs boson's discovery to a room where Peter Higgs wept.
03Each proton beam carries the kinetic energy equivalent of a 400-tonne train at 150 km/h.

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01Rapture's architecture was modeled on 1940s Art Deco with over 100 distinct interior environments hand-detailed.
02The game's central twist reframes every player action across the preceding six hours as a conditioned response.
03BioShock sold over 4 million copies in its first year, elevating the shooter into serious literary criticism.

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01Jane was buried next to Hickok in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery on August 4, 1903, per her deathbed request.
02She dressed in buckskin and Army uniform throughout her career, often passing as male on military expeditions.
03Her autobiography, published 1896, claimed she married Wild Bill — a claim historians have never been able to verify.

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01His Cyrus Cylinder, 539 BC, is the oldest known declaration of religious and ethnic tolerance by a ruler.
02Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae allegedly beheaded Cyrus and submerged his head in a skin of blood.
03He freed the Babylonian Jewish exile — ~40,000 people — and funded the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple.

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A Jake and Dinos Chapman fused mannequin piece from the exhibition Come and See at the Serpentine Gallery

01The original Goya plates date from 1810–1820; the Chapmans overpainted them in 2003.
02They titled the defaced series 'Insult to Injury,' inverting Goya's humanitarian intent entirely.
03Jake Chapman said ruining the Goyas was more creative than making new work from scratch.

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01Blaine was encased in a custom ice block in Times Square from November 27–29, 2000, for 63 hours.
02Compartment syndrome — caused by fluid pressure in immobile limbs — threatened amputation of both legs.
03He emerged hypothermic, his feet so damaged he required months of physical rehabilitation to walk normally.

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01The Zulu impi encircled the British camp in under two hours on January 22, 1879.
02Ammunition screws were rusted shut and quartermasters demanded signed requisitions mid-battle, leaving companies dry.
031,329 British and allied soldiers were killed — the largest single defeat of the Victorian army.

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