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01Hostages were separated by nationality within hours; non-Jewish passengers were released at Entebbe, Uganda, on July 1, 1976.
02The Israeli raid, Operation Thunderbolt, lasted 53 minutes on the ground; 102 hostages were freed.
03One hostage, Dora Bloch, was left behind in a Kampala hospital; Ugandan soldiers murdered her the next day.

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01A New York postal clerk named Charles Kaplan held 16 bombs after spotting identical suspicious packages.
02One bomb reached Senator Thomas Hardwick; his maid opened it and lost both hands.
03The bombings triggered the Palmer Raids, which deported over 500 foreign-born radicals within a year.

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01McCartney used the placeholder lyric 'Scrambled eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs' while writing 'Yesterday.'
02'Yesterday' holds the Guinness record for most cover versions of any song — over 2,200 recorded artists.
03He dreamed the complete melody, woke, played it immediately, and told no one for weeks out of uncertainty.

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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.

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A block of silica aerogel in a hand.

01Silica aerogel holds 15 Guinness World Records, including lowest-density solid ever produced at 1.9 mg/cm³.
02NASA used aerogel blankets to insulate the Mars Pathfinder rover against temperatures of −80 °C.
03Aerogel can support up to 4,000 times its own weight before the nano-silica structure collapses.

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01Materazzi admitted he insulted Zidane's sister; Zidane said the words were 'very personal.'
02Zidane was voted Player of the Tournament despite the red card ending his final game.
03The headbutt was missed by referees but flagged by a fourth official watching a monitor.

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01GW170817 produced an estimated 3–13 Earth masses of pure gold in under two seconds.
02The kilonova was spotted 130 million light-years away in galaxy NGC 4993 on August 17, 2017.
03R-process nucleosynthesis — the only mechanism for forging heavy metals — requires neutron star merger density.

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The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round from the GAU-8 Avenger

01Approximately 300 tons of depleted uranium ammunition were expended by US forces during the 1991 campaign.
02DU penetrators burn on impact, scattering radioactive oxide dust inhaled by soldiers and civilians alike.
03Basra pediatric wards recorded a sharp rise in childhood leukemia and birth defects through the 1990s.

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01The Friend refused all gendered pronouns for over forty years, insisting the prior self had literally ceased to exist.
02At the movement's height, the Friend led a community of hundreds at Jerusalem, New York, founded in 1788.
03Colonial crowds gathered in thousands to hear the Friend preach — a figure who claimed to carry no earthly name or sex.

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