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01Solanas shot Warhol twice on June 3, 1968; he flatlined on the table and was resuscitated, but wore a surgical corset for the rest of his life.
02The SCUM Manifesto proposed that women use sperm banks to render the male sex obsolete within a generation.
03Solanas was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, served three years, then died alone in a San Francisco welfare hotel in 1988.

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01Collins reportedly consumed enough laudanum daily by the 1880s that his doctor considered the volume medically unsurvivable long-term.
02He dictated 'Blind Love' (1890) during his final illness in doses of lucidity he could not later recall.
03Collins maintained two separate households — a wife and a mistress — running in parallel, managed on the same laudanum schedule.

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01The player cannot skip the white phosphorus strike; the game locks all other options until it fires.
02Loading screens mock the player directly: 'Do you feel like a hero yet?' appears after the massacre.
03Developer Yager used Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as the explicit narrative blueprint, set in Dubai.

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01700 gilded spurs were stripped from dead French knights and hung in the Church of Our Lady, Kortrijk.
02The Flemish army had no cavalry — peasant infantry with iron-tipped clubs called goedendags did the killing.
03France lost the Count of Artois and over 1,000 noblemen in a single morning.

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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.

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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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01The outer walls of Babylon measured roughly 90 feet thick at the base, per excavations by Robert Koldewey beginning in 1899.
02Herodotus described the walls encircling a square city, 14 miles on each side, with 250 towers along the circuit.
03The Ishtar Gate, clad in blue-glazed brick with golden dragons, stood at the northern entrance to this walled city.

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01Soldiers stripped Landauer, beat him with rifle butts, then shot him in the Stadelheim prison yard.
02Landauer had served as Commissioner of Enlightenment in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic for just weeks.
03His friend Martin Buber collected and published his unfinished writings as an act of mourning.

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01Supreme's 2012 New Hampshire primary campaign included a glitter-bomb thrown at rival candidate Randall Terry during a public forum.
02He polled 833 votes in the 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary, beating two candidates who spent real campaign money.
03His pony platform doubles as an economic policy: ponies as personal transportation to reduce fossil fuel dependence.

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