gnostek1 / 2Exterior view of the building known as Ransom Room, in Cajamarca where the Inca Atahualpa was confined.
01The ransom room measured roughly 22 feet long by 17 feet wide; gold filled it once, silver twice.
02Estimated value of Atahualpa's ransom: over $1.5 billion in today's terms — the largest ever paid.
03Pizarro's justification for execution was a fabricated charge of plotting rebellion after payment was complete.
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01IMRO's 'verhovists' and 'autonomists' factions waged open gunfights against each other in Sofia's streets in the 1920s.
02Between 1924 and 1934, IMRO committed over 800 documented political assassinations, most of them internal purges.
03Bulgaria's government allowed IMRO to operate as a state-within-a-state, issuing its own passports and death sentences.
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01Foucault was reportedly aware he had AIDS by 1983 and continued frequenting San Francisco bathhouses through that year.
02He coined 'biopower' — the state's management of bodies and populations — in a 1976 lecture at the Collège de France.
03His 'Discipline and Punish' (1975) opens with a four-page description of a man being drawn and quartered in 1757 Paris.
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01U.S. troops killed an estimated 250–300 South Korean civilians over three days at No Gun Ri bridge.
02The Army initially denied the event entirely; the AP's 1999 investigation won a Pulitzer Prize exposing it.
03In 2001, President Clinton issued a formal statement of regret — the U.S. declined to call it an apology.
gnostek1 / 14Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…
01Honey cakes called 'meli' were physically placed in corpses' mouths as payment to pass Cerberus.
02Hercules' twelfth labor was to drag Cerberus from Hades alive — using no weapons.
03Orpheus bypassed Cerberus not with force but by playing his lyre until the dog fell asleep.
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01Drake had concealed Adonis's existence; Pusha T's 2018 track was the public revelation.
02The cover art repurposed a leaked Drake Adidas promotional photo, weaponizing Drake's own brand deal.
03Drake confirmed the son's existence days later via an Instagram post, validating every claim.
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01Casartelli died on July 18, 1995, during stage 15 of the Tour — a descent in the Pyrenees.
02The race organisation did not neutralise the stage; riders finished while Casartelli was airlifted, dying, to hospital.
03It was the first Tour fatality since British rider Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in 1967.
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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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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.