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01Wilson took LSD at least a dozen times between 1956 and 1959, supplied by researchers at the Veterans Administration.
02He wrote to AA's trustees arguing that LSD could 'temporarily wipe out the ego' and accelerate the Twelfth Step.
03The AA board rejected his proposal; Wilson continued his LSD sessions privately while remaining AA's public moral authority.

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01Holt's body was never found despite one of Australia's largest naval search operations covering 10 square miles of coastline.
02A 1983 biography floated the theory that a Chinese submarine extracted Holt, who was allegedly a spy — taken seriously enough to be officially denied.
03Australia named a swimming center the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in his honor.

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U.S. representative Michael Myers , second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents

01Congressman Michael Myers was caught on tape saying 'money talks and bullshit walks' while pocketing $50,000 in cash.
02Senator Harrison Williams was filmed agreeing to use Senate influence for a fictional titanium mine in exchange for bribery.
03The sting used a fake company, 'Abdul Enterprises,' and a fabricated sheikh persona maintained for nearly two full years.

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01Jackson was hit by three bullets from the 18th North Carolina Infantry — his own rear guard.
02His left arm was amputated; Lee said 'he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.'
03Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 — eight days after the friendly-fire volley.

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0193,000 Pakistani POWs were held in 52 camps across India from December 1971 to 1973.
02Pakistan refused to acknowledge its soldiers as prisoners of war for months, complicating repatriation talks.
03India threatened war crimes trials for 195 officers before Bangladesh ultimately dropped the demand.

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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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01Wind speeds on Ventoux's summit regularly exceed 90 km/h; the exposed limestone reflects heat like a furnace.
02Tom Simpson collapsed and died 1.3 km from the Ventoux summit on July 13, 1967.
03In 2016, Chris Froome ran 1 km uphill in cycling shoes, bike under his arm, after a crash with a motorcycle.

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01Collins reportedly consumed enough laudanum daily by the 1880s that his doctor considered the volume medically unsurvivable long-term.
02He dictated 'Blind Love' (1890) during his final illness in doses of lucidity he could not later recall.
03Collins maintained two separate households — a wife and a mistress — running in parallel, managed on the same laudanum schedule.

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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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