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01Nobel's brother Ludvig died in 1888; a French paper mistakenly ran Alfred's obituary instead.
02Dynamite, patented in 1867, replaced unstable nitroglycerin — Nobel mixed it with diatomaceous earth.
03Nobel left 94% of his estate, roughly 31 million Swedish kronor, to fund five annual prizes.

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01Hardin killed his first man at fifteen, shooting a formerly enslaved man named Mage after an argument.
02He studied law in prison and was admitted to the Texas bar in 1894 — one year before he was shot dead.
03Shot in the back of the head in an El Paso saloon by constable John Selman on August 19, 1895.

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Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016)

01Gunther von Hagens exhibited a plastinated couple frozen mid-coitus, later removed after public outcry.
02The first Body Worlds show in Tokyo drew 2.9 million visitors in nine months.
03Donated bodies are injected with reactive polymer that replaces every cell's water and fat permanently.

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01Stubby survived a mustard gas attack; he then learned to warn soldiers by pawing at their faces.
02He served in 17 battles across 18 months — more combat than most human soldiers in WWI.
03Stubby was promoted to sergeant after capturing a German spy by biting his backside.

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01She rendered three women into soap bars and teacakes, feeding the cakes to visiting neighbors.
02Her stated motive was a fortune-teller's prophecy that one of her children would die in WWII.
03Sentenced to 30 years plus 3 in a criminal asylum; her soap-making pot is on display in a Rome museum.

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01Black Tuesday, October 29, saw 16 million shares sold; the Dow lost 12% of its value in a single session.
02U.S. GDP fell 30% between 1929 and 1933; unemployment reached 25% — one in four American workers.
03The crash wiped out roughly $30 billion in market value within two weeks, equivalent to the entire U.S. GDP at the time.

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01Six emperors rose and fell in a single calendar year, 238 CE.
02Gordian I hanged himself with his own belt after his son died in battle.
03Pupienus and Balbinus, elected by the Senate, were tortured and dismembered by guards after just 99 days.

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01Wittig delivered 'The Straight Mind' at the 1980 MLA conference, declaring heterosexuality a political regime, not a preference.
02Her 1969 novel 'Les Guérillères' featured an army of women burning every text that named them.
03She argued 'lesbian' is the only subject position outside the male/female binary — not a third gender, an escape.

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Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.

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