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01Cyrus recruited roughly 10,400 Greek hoplites — the 'Ten Thousand' — to topple his own brother's throne.
02He was killed at Cunaxa in 401 BC, struck by a javelin, reportedly while lunging at Artaxerxes himself.
03His Greek mercenaries won their sector of the battle, then had to march home alone through hostile territory.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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01A neutron star packs 1.4 solar masses into a sphere roughly 20 km across.
02Its surface gravity is 200 billion times Earth's — a marshmallow dropped from 1 meter hits with nuclear-bomb force.
03The crust is so rigid that a 'starquake' of 1 mm releases more energy than the Sun emits in 100,000 years.

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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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01Promoter Steve Dahl blew up a crate stuffed with 10,000 disco records using actual explosives.
02Roughly 7,000 fans without tickets stormed the field after the blast; police made 39 arrests.
03The White Sox forfeited only their second game ever — costing them a spot in a tight playoff race.

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Chapel interior

01The bone chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body.
02František Rint bleached and wired 40,000 skeletons after Black Death mass graves were exhumed in 1278.
03The Schwarzenberg coat of arms, rendered in bone, includes a sculpted raven pecking a severed eye socket.

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01Ferrer's Escuela Moderna gave boys and girls identical curricula — heretical in 1901 Catholic Spain.
02He was convicted of 'intellectual authorship' of the 1909 Tragic Week riots despite no direct evidence.
03His execution triggered protest riots across Europe, toppling the Spanish prime minister within weeks.

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01Unit 731's flea-breeding operation produced approximately 3 kilograms — around 45 million individual fleas — per week.
02Plague-infected rats were bred alongside fleas in dedicated Pingfang facilities staffed by civilian workers.
03The 1940 Ningbo plague outbreak, traced to a Unit 731 drop, killed hundreds within two months.

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01Dodson charged participants per session and grossed enough to sustain decades of full-time sexual education work.
02Her 1974 pamphlet 'Liberating Masturbation' was self-published; NOW initially refused to distribute it as too explicit.
03She used a Hitachi Magic Wand as standard equipment and discussed it by brand name in workshops.

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