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01The Vela satellites were designed to monitor the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty — this was their most sensitive detection.
02A White House scientific panel in 1980 concluded the signal was probably a meteoroid strike, not a bomb; the CIA disagreed.
03If it was a nuclear test, it would make Israel or South Africa an undeclared nuclear power — a fact no treaty has ever formally addressed.

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01Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel halted in 1992 with the shell complete; it sat visibly unfinished for 16 years.
02The building was so embarrassing that North Korean state maps omitted it entirely for nearly two decades.
03At 330 meters tall, it would be the 4th-tallest hotel on Earth if it ever opened; its 3,000 rooms remain empty.

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01Merckx was punched in the kidney by a fan on Puy-de-Dôme, cracking a bone mid-climb.
02He still finished second overall in 1975, riding the final weeks in documented, measurable pain.
03That punch ended his shot at a record sixth Tour de France title — he never won again.

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01Andrews swallowed 27 swords simultaneously, the highest count ever verified by Guinness.
02Each blade must pass the pharynx and travel the full length of the esophagus into the stomach.
03The act takes years of conditioning — early practitioners regularly perforated their own esophagi.

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01Smith was 17 when he wrote Manic Miner; it sold over 30,000 copies on the ZX Spectrum.
02He disappeared from the UK games industry entirely in the mid-1980s, rumored to be living in a commune.
03He resurfaced at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, his first confirmed public appearance in roughly 15 years.

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01Turnspit dogs worked in pairs, alternating hour-long shifts inside the wheel to keep roasts turning evenly.
02A preserved Turnspit specimen named 'Whiskey' is still on display at Abergavenny Museum in Wales.
03Once kitchen machinery replaced them in the 1800s, the breed was considered useless and died out within decades.

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Albert von Le Coq

01Von Le Coq used ordinary bread knives to saw through 1,500-year-old Buddhist frescoes at Kizil caves.
02He shipped the fresco slabs to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, crated like furniture.
03RAF bombing raids in 1943 destroyed much of what he had taken — the originals were gone and the copies incinerated.

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01Physio Steph Brennan made a real cut on Williams's lip with a scalpel to produce genuine blood post-capsule.
02The scheme was designed to exploit the 'blood bin' rule, allowing a specialist kicker back onto the field.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years; Brennan lost her medical registration.

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The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

01The 192-beam pulse lasts just 20 billionths of a second but briefly exceeds 100 million degrees Celsius.
02In December 2022, NIF produced 3.15 megajoules from a 2.05-megajoule input — the first fusion ignition.
03The target pellet of hydrogen fuel is just 2 millimeters in diameter, smaller than a pea.

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