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01Medallion's 66% gross annual return over 30 years would turn $1,000 into over $7 billion compounded.
02The fund charges a 44% performance fee — versus the industry standard 20% — and still obliterates every benchmark.
03Access is restricted exclusively to Renaissance Technologies employees; all outside investors were returned their capital in 2005.

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U.S. representative Michael Myers , second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents

01Congressman Michael Myers was caught on tape saying 'money talks and bullshit walks' while pocketing $50,000 in cash.
02Senator Harrison Williams was filmed agreeing to use Senate influence for a fictional titanium mine in exchange for bribery.
03The sting used a fake company, 'Abdul Enterprises,' and a fabricated sheikh persona maintained for nearly two full years.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01Greek fire was first deployed in 672 AD, repelling the Arab siege of Constantinople by sea.
02The weapon burned on water — witnesses described ships continuing to burn as they sank.
03The recipe was a state secret; even modern analysis cannot pin down all its components.

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01Grandin's curved chute designs, built around a cow's field of vision, are used in roughly 50% of U.S. cattle facilities.
02She earned her PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois in 1989 after her professors doubted her methods.
03Her 2010 HBO biopic won five Emmy Awards — she attended the ceremony and met Claire Danes, who played her.

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01The team launched from a 70-foot fishing vessel, the Krait, disguised with stain and sarongs as local fishermen.
02Seven Japanese ships totalling approximately 37,000 gross tons were sunk or damaged on September 26–27, 1943.
03The entire six-man team survived and returned to Australia — one of very few WWII special ops with zero losses.

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01The tape was recorded September 2005 but sat in NBC archives for eleven years before leaking.
02Billy Bush was fired from the Today show within days; Trump was elected president weeks later.
03Trump called it 'locker room talk' — a phrase that entered political vocabulary as a category of defense.

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01Utahraptor was described and named in 1993, the same year Jurassic Park released — the timing was pure accident.
02Its sickle claw alone measured 9 inches; Velociraptor's equivalent claw was under 3 inches.
03A block of Utah sandstone may contain a mass grave of Utahraptors entombed together in quicksand-like mud.

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01Axolotls regenerate cardiac and neural tissue within weeks; no scarring, only original architecture restored.
02They are critically endangered in the wild, surviving in a single lake system: Xochimilco, Mexico.
03Aztec mythology held the axolotl sacred as the god Xolotl's disguise to escape his own sacrifice.

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