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01His Cyrus Cylinder, 539 BC, is the oldest known declaration of religious and ethnic tolerance by a ruler.
02Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae allegedly beheaded Cyrus and submerged his head in a skin of blood.
03He freed the Babylonian Jewish exile — ~40,000 people — and funded the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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01408 civilians died — mostly women and children sheltering from airstrikes in Baghdad's Amiriyah district.
02The bunker was built by a Finnish firm to NATO specifications; the US knew its layout.
03Charred silhouettes of bodies are still visible on the interior walls, preserved as a memorial.

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The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .

01Jerry Ehman wrote 'Wow!' in red pen on the Ohio State Big Ear printout on August 15, 1977.
02The signal hit exactly the 1420 MHz hydrogen frequency SETI researchers had predicted aliens would use.
03Forty-seven years of follow-up observations have produced zero repetitions or explanations.

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01Claudia Severa's birthday invitation, written around 100 AD, is the oldest known Latin text by a woman.
02The tablets were preserved for 2,000 years in the waterlogged peat beneath a Yorkshire fort.
03One soldier wrote home complaining of the cold; his mother sent underpants and two pairs of socks.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01D'Éon negotiated secretly with Empress Elizabeth of Russia on behalf of Louis XV, disguised as a woman at the Russian court.
02In 1777, Louis XVI issued a formal royal order requiring d'Éon to live permanently as a woman.
03London gamblers wagered £120,000 on d'Éon's birth sex — a legal dispute that outlasted her diplomatic career.

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01Rapture's founding philosophy quotes Rand directly; Andrew Ryan's name is an anagram of Ayn Rand.
02The Little Sisters harvest a substance called ADAM from corpses — a child labor economy written into the lore.
03The twist in 1960 Rapture: the player-character was a sleeper agent controlled by the phrase 'Would you kindly.'

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01The fleet sailed around three continents; within 45 minutes of contact, 21 of 35 Russian ships were sunk.
02Admiral Rozhestvensky was wounded, captured, and survived — then court-martialed by Russia after returning home.
03Tsushima triggered the 1905 Russian Revolution, the direct precursor to 1917.

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