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01Greer told women to taste their own menstrual blood as a direct act against the disgust men had trained them to feel toward their own bodies.
02'The Female Eunuch' was published in 1970 and translated into eight languages within two years of release.
03Greer's 2018 statements that rape 'needn't be a life sentence' and was often 'bad sex' led to petitions banning her from Australian universities.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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01South Korean authorities killed an estimated 60,000–100,000 of their own civilians in weeks during summer 1950.
02Victims included Bodo League members — a government-run 're-education' program whose enrollees were then deemed threats.
03The South Korean government denied the massacres for over 50 years; a truth commission confirmed them in 2008.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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01Bosco beat two human candidates in Sunol's 1981 election and served as honorary mayor for 13 years.
02A statue of Bosco was erected in Sunol after his death in 1994, commemorating his service to the 900-person town.
03Chinese state media once used Bosco's election as anti-democracy propaganda, arguing it proved American elections were meaningless.

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01Nixon gave no advance notice to the IMF, the G10, or allied finance ministers before the August 15, 1971 broadcast.
02The U.S. held only $10 billion in gold reserves against $80 billion in foreign-held dollar claims at the time.
03The 'temporary' 10% import surcharge Nixon imposed that night was never formally repealed under its original authority.

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Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere

01The 'Oh-My-God particle' had energy 3×10^20 eV — 40 million times more than CERN's LHC can produce.
02Above ~5×10^19 eV, the GZK limit predicts particles should be shredded by CMB photons en route — yet it arrived.
03Its source remains unknown; no known astrophysical accelerator within 160 million light-years can explain it.

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01The game has no combat system, no health bar, and no way to lose — only the ocean and its creatures.
02A humpback whale named Matthew appears at a specific depth and time of in-game day, and players sought him out.
03Endless Ocean was developed by Arika, a small studio best known for Street Fighter EX — an unlikely tenderness.

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01The Old Norse word 'berserkr' likely means 'bear-shirt' — the warrior wore the animal's hide and its soul.
02King Harald Fairhair used berserkers as a personal shock unit at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, c. 872 AD.
03Later Norse law explicitly outlawed berserk behavior — it was treated as a crime once the state no longer needed it.

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