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01Hetty Green's fortune of roughly $100 million in 1916 equals over $2.5 billion today — all self-managed.
02Her son Ned's leg was amputated after she allegedly delayed treatment to avoid medical fees.
03She lived in cheap boarding houses and ate cold oatmeal, despite being America's wealthiest woman.

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01Colonel Allan MacLean was wounded multiple times before being taken by Chinese soldiers on November 29, 1950.
02The combined Task Force — roughly 3,000 men — suffered casualties above 50% before breaking through the encirclement.
03MacLean's replacement, Lieutenant Colonel Don Faith, was killed leading the breakout; he received a posthumous Medal of Honor.

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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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01The Chapel of St. Kinga sits 101 meters underground and fits 400 worshippers; every surface is carved salt.
02Miners began carving in the 13th century; the cathedral took nearly 700 years of cumulative chisel work to complete.
03Salt chandeliers were constructed by dissolving and recrystallizing brine into sculptural forms rather than cutting raw blocks.

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01She underwent nine cosmetic surgeries between 1990 and 1993, all filmed and transmitted to galleries worldwide.
02During operations she read aloud from Lacan, Artaud, and Kristeva — refusing general anesthesia so she could perform.
03One implant placed a bump above each eyebrow; she modeled them on a Renaissance Venus and Diana.

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01Unit 100, based in Changchun, produced anthrax, glanders, and rinderpest agents specifically to destroy enemy livestock.
02The unit contaminated rivers and grazing land used by Soviet and Mongolian cavalry units.
03Its commanding officer, Yujiro Wakamatsu, also received immunity from prosecution under the US deal.

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01Army surgeons used Tarrare as a spy courier, hiding dispatches inside raw meat he swallowed whole.
02A 14-month-old infant disappeared from the hospital ward where Tarrare was confined; he was the prime suspect.
03His autopsy revealed a massively distended stomach, corroded organs, and a body riddled with tumors at death around age 26.

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Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .

01Krypteia initiates were given a knife and sent into the countryside to kill helots without witnesses.
02The ritual was supervised by the ephors — Sparta's top magistrates — making murder an official curriculum.
03Helots outnumbered Spartans roughly 7-to-1; the Krypteia was demographic terror dressed as a rite of passage.

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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

01Cacareco's 100,000 votes made her the single highest vote-getter in the entire 1959 São Paulo council election.
02The rhino's name means 'rubbish' or 'worthless thing' in Brazilian Portuguese — the voters knew exactly what they were saying.
03Brazilian authorities annulled her votes, but the protest sparked international coverage of São Paulo's municipal disillusionment.

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