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01Solanas set the price at 10 cents for men and free for women — the differential was the argument.
02She shot Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968, citing his failure to return a manuscript she had given him.
03The Manifesto was reprinted by Olympia Press in 1968 while Solanas was in psychiatric custody; she had not authorized it.

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01Buckminsterfullerene — C60 — has exactly 60 carbon atoms forming 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
02Harry Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley discovered it in 1985 and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
03C60 naturally occurs in the soot of candle flames and in the atmosphere of certain carbon-rich giant stars.

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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03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.

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01X-rays taken in 1947 confirmed the rapier passed through his liver and stomach undamaged.
02He performed the skewering publicly in Zurich, witnessed by physicians who could find no trickery.
03He died in 1948 — not from blades, but from a swallowed steel needle causing an aortic aneurysm.

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1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.

01The Thor, launched in 1908 by Hurley Machine Company, had no electrical insulation on its motor housing.
02Alva Fisher's patent drawings show live copper contacts positioned inches above the water basin.
03Early electric washing machine electrocutions were recorded in Chicago within the first year of Thor's sale.

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01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.

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01The Black Mesa Research Facility was designed as a structurally plausible underground complex spanning multiple biomes.
02Half-Life won over 50 'Game of the Year' awards in 1998, more than any title before it.
03Valve's follow-up Half-Life 2 in 2004 shipped with the Source engine, revolutionizing physics simulation in games.

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01Beloki's femur, wrist, and elbow all fractured in a 2003 crash partly triggered by a race vehicle.
02Armstrong famously cut across a field to avoid the same crash — an improvised off-road detour mid-stage.
03Tour motorcycles carry cameras, doctors, and sponsors, yet have no mandatory speed floor or collision protocol.

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Original Soviet space dog environmentally controlled safety module used on sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights

01Dezik and Tsygan became the first dogs to survive a space flight on July 22, 1951 — aboard a suborbital rocket.
02Comet and Shutka were aboard a capsule lost at sea; their bodies were never recovered.
03Dogs were chosen over monkeys because Soviet scientists found them easier to train to sit still in a pressurized suit.

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