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01Vanderbilt ordered New York Central trains to stop at the Harlem River bridge in January 1867, stranding passengers in the cold.
02He accumulated a fortune of $105 million by death in 1877 — the largest in U.S. history to that point.
03When a doctor told him to stop working, Vanderbilt replied he could not afford to stop; he was worth $100 million.

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01The repository was designed to warn off humans for 10,000 years using non-linguistic symbols.
02Obama's DOE withdrew the license application in 2010, stranding $15 billion of completed work.
03High-level waste currently sits in temporary pools at 75 reactor sites across 33 U.S. states.

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Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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01The dik-dik's preorbital gland sits so close to the eye that marking a twig looks like self-blinding.
02Mated pairs are monogamous for life; the male shadow-follows the female within two body-lengths at all times.
03When alarmed, dik-diks produce a sharp 'dik-dik' nasal whistle that named the entire species.

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01Physio Steph Brennan bit the capsule himself; the blood on his lips exposed the fraud immediately.
02The substituted player, Tom Williams, was later found to have also cut his own lip with a scalpel.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years over the scheme.

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01At least 3,000 prisoners died inside Unit 731's Pingfang compound between 1935 and 1945.
02Prisoners were called 'maruta' (logs) so staff could log their deaths as lumber inventory.
03The US granted full immunity to all Unit 731 officers in exchange for their experimental data.

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A Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness

01Gas mantles contained thorium-232, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 14 billion years.
02A single crushed mantle released radioactive dust directly into the breathing air of the room.
03Thorium mantles were still legally sold in camping supply shops in the United States into the 1990s.

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01IMRO's 'verhovists' and 'autonomists' factions waged open gunfights against each other in Sofia's streets in the 1920s.
02Between 1924 and 1934, IMRO committed over 800 documented political assassinations, most of them internal purges.
03Bulgaria's government allowed IMRO to operate as a state-within-a-state, issuing its own passports and death sentences.

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