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01Soros shorted £10 billion in a single day, forcing Britain to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
02The UK Treasury spent an estimated $27 billion in reserves trying to defend the pound — and failed within hours.
03Black Wednesday cost British taxpayers roughly £3.4 billion; Soros personally cleared over $1 billion by market close.

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01De Kock's unit at Vlakplaas once blew up three activists and scattered the remains across two provinces.
02He gave evidence against his political masters in exchange for two life sentences, implicating cabinet ministers.
03Paroled in 2015; he personally apologised to widows of men he had ordered killed.

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01The level 'Effect and Cause' is widely cited as one of the greatest single game levels ever designed.
02Titanfall 2 sold modestly on release in 2016, sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty launches.
03The time-rewind mechanic runs both environments simultaneously in memory, swapping the player between them in real time.

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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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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

01The term 'long pig' originates from Polynesian and Melanesian cannibalistic practice, not European invention.
02Missionary accounts from Fiji in the 1840s record the phrase being used matter-of-factly by islanders.
03The smell comparison is attributed to survivors and perpetrators alike, across geographically unconnected cultures.

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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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01Agrippina the Younger poisoned her husband Claudius with mushrooms, then had her own son Nero order her murder.
02All five emperors were connected by blood and adoption from a single couple: Augustus and Livia.
03Tiberius was reportedly smothered with a pillow by the Praetorian prefect Macro when he briefly revived after fainting.

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01Drew's cattle-watering trick added hundreds of pounds per animal before the weighmaster's scale.
02He printed $10 million in unauthorized Erie Railroad shares to defeat Cornelius Vanderbilt's takeover bid in 1868.
03Drew died broke in 1879, his entire fortune lost in the panic he had helped engineer.

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