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01Livermore's 1929 short position netted roughly $100 million — equal to ~$1.8 billion today.
02He went bankrupt not once but three times, each time clawing back a fortune from zero.
03His suicide note, left for his wife Dorothy, consisted of a single handwritten page calling himself a failure.

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01The ISS has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 — over 24 unbroken years.
02Astronauts lose up to 1–2% bone density per month; a six-month mission equals a decade of aging.
03The station's solar arrays cover 2,500 square meters — larger than a U.S. football field.

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Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s

01The U.S. natural ice industry harvested over 25 million tons annually from lakes by 1880.
02Ice was cut in winter, packed in sawdust, and stored in insulated warehouses until summer delivery.
03A failed ice delivery on a hot day could spoil a family's entire weekly food supply by evening.

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01The Pingfang complex covered six square kilometers, with a dedicated rail spur for prisoner delivery.
02Its crematorium ran continuously; ash output was used to estimate monthly prisoner death rates.
03Construction workers, numbering roughly 15,000, were killed after completion to prevent disclosure of the layout.

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01Only the first kilometre of the cave is iced; the remaining 41 kilometres are limestone tunnels beyond the freeze zone.
02The cave was mapped by explorer Alexander von Mörk beginning in 1913; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1914, and his ashes were interred inside the cave.
03Air circulation within Eisriesenwelt keeps the ice formations frozen even when summer temperatures outside exceed 20°C.

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01The $100 trillion Zimbabwean note, issued in January 2009, is now a collector's item sold for novelty.
02Life expectancy in Zimbabwe collapsed from 60 years in 1990 to 37 years by 2006 under Mugabe's rule.
03Mugabe ruled for 37 years before a military coup in November 2017 finally ended his presidency.

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01York's Tama-Re compound in Eatonton, Georgia, included a full-scale pyramid, sphinx, and obelisk he built himself.
02Federal conviction in 2004 cited 117 counts of child molestation; victims ranged from age 4 to 14.
03York claimed he was an alien from the 'Illyuwn' galaxy sent to prepare Black Americans for ascension.

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01GoldenEye 007 sold over 8 million copies, making it the third best-selling N64 game of all time.
02The game's multiplayer was added in the final six weeks of development by a single programmer, Steve Ellis.
03Its analog stick aiming system established the twin-stick control standard that every console shooter still uses today.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01First baseman Chick Gandil organized the fix; the players received between $5,000 and $35,000, unevenly distributed.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson actually batted .375 in the Series and hit the only home run — yet was banned for life.
03Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned all eight players permanently, even after a jury acquitted them in 1921.

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