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01Bessus stabbed Darius III in 330 BC, left him dying in a cart, and claimed the Achaemenid throne.
02Alexander had Bessus mutilated — nose and ears removed — before sending him to Ecbatana for formal execution.
03Bessus ruled as 'Artaxerxes V' for roughly two years; no coin, no monument survives bearing that name.

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01The surrender ceremony was held at Ramna Race Course, Dhaka, before a crowd of thousands.
02Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi signed for Pakistan; his army had held East Pakistan for nine months.
0393,000 soldiers surrendered — more than the German capitulation at Stalingrad in 1943.

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01Travis weighed 200 pounds and had lived as a near-human companion — riding in cars, drinking wine, using a computer.
02Charla Nash required a full face transplant; she testified before Congress to ban private primate ownership in 2009.
03Police shot Travis four times; he retreated to his cage and died there — the 911 call is public record.

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01The Kanun was transmitted orally for centuries; it wasn't written down until Franciscan friar Shtjefën Gjeçovi compiled it in 1933.
02One article of the Kanun fixes the price of a man's blood at 'twelve oxen' — the base unit of honor debt.
03Dukagjini lived contemporaneously with Skanderbeg and reportedly feuded with him personally.

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01Sanders interrogated Shirō Ishii personally in autumn 1945, before any formal tribunal was convened.
02He accepted biological weapons research built on thousands of deaths in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
03Sanders never publicly disclosed the contents of the deal; the files stayed classified for over 30 years.

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01Voltaire predicted Christianity would collapse within 100 years; the Geneva Bible Society occupied his house by 1828.
02He annotated his own copy of the Bible with the word 'absurd' in the margins, repeatedly, throughout.
03Voltaire wrote over 20,000 letters in his lifetime, many mocking Scripture by quoting it back verbatim.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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01The photograph is called 'Piss Christ' and was printed at 60 × 40 inches.
02U.S. senators read the title aloud on the Senate floor in 1989 as evidence of federal depravity.
03A print was physically attacked with hammers by protesters in Avignon, France, in 2011.

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01Prey's Talos I space station was designed as a coherent 1960s-retrofuturist structure with logical internal geography.
02The Mimics' shapeshifting was inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing and Stanisław Lem's Solaris.
03Players can craft a 'GLOO Cannon' that fires hardening foam, climbing station exteriors in zero gravity.

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