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01El Cid died in 1099 but his armored corpse, tied to Babieca, led the final charge at Valencia.
02He fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, switching sides twice without losing his legend.
03His nickname 'El Cid' comes from Arabic 'al-sayyid' — meaning 'the lord' — given by his enemies.

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01Dzhumagaliev had his teeth replaced with white metal, earning him the nickname 'Metal Fang.'
02Party guests unknowingly ate kebabs made from his female victims on at least one confirmed occasion.
03He escaped a psychiatric facility in 1989 and was not recaptured for two years.

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01Oxygen inside Biosphere 2 fell from 21% to 14.5% — equivalent to altitude sickness at 13,400 feet.
02Morning glories choked the crops; the crew ate their emergency seed stock to survive.
03A secret oxygen injection was pumped in, which the management initially denied to the press.

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01Malala was 15 when shot on October 9, 2012; she had been named to a Taliban hit list months earlier.
02She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, at age 17, sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi.
03The Malala Fund she co-founded has invested in girls' education across twelve countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria.

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A Jake and Dinos Chapman fused mannequin piece from the exhibition Come and See at the Serpentine Gallery

01The original Goya plates date from 1810–1820; the Chapmans overpainted them in 2003.
02They titled the defaced series 'Insult to Injury,' inverting Goya's humanitarian intent entirely.
03Jake Chapman said ruining the Goyas was more creative than making new work from scratch.

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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.

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01Hauser could not walk on grass without excruciating pain; his feet had never touched uneven ground.
02Some 19th-century investigators believed he was the hereditary Prince of Baden, hidden to clear a succession.
03He was stabbed in a public garden in 1833; his killer left no trace — mirroring his own arrival.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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