gnostek1 / 3Paul Nakadate, one of the seven Fair Play leaders, with his wife and son in their barracks apartment in Heart Mountain (NARA)
01The Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee organized resistance from inside a Wyoming internment camp in 1944.
0263 resisters were convicted of draft evasion and sentenced to federal prison terms of up to three years.
03The JACL publicly condemned the resisters as traitors; the government called them cowards.
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01The Diamond Sutra's colophon reads: 'printed on 11 May 868 AD by Wang Jie for free distribution' — the first named printer in history.
02It is 5.4 meters long, printed on seven strips of paper glued end to end, and found rolled in Dunhuang's Cave 17.
03The text instructs readers that the sutra itself is a raft to be discarded once you cross — the book commands its own obsolescence.
gnostek1 / 9Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009 until June 2020
01Trump's tweet on August 22, 2018, named Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as directed to 'closely study' the situation.
02South Africa's rand dropped 1.4% against the dollar within two hours of the tweet.
03The Fox News segment that prompted it aired only hours before Trump posted; no briefing was involved.
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01A three-month-old infant was stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake at a 1994 Quebec site.
02Fires ignited simultaneously in chalets in Cheiry and Salvan, Switzerland, and Morin-Heights, Quebec, on October 4–5, 1994.
03A final wave in 1997 killed 5 more in Quebec; the youngest was 16, the oldest 69.
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01Ruffians can be hired to beat piñatas to death; the candy spills are the death animation.
02Certain predator species eat others whole; if the prey species reaches zero, it never returns that save file.
03The game shipped in 2006 rated E for Everyone, despite containing species extinction as a core mechanic.
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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.
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01Drake chose the name 'Ozma' after L. Frank Baum's queen of a distant, unreachable land.
02Project Ozma ran for four months in 1960 on an 85-foot dish at Green Bank, West Virginia — the first SETI experiment.
03Drake later formalized his thinking as the Drake Equation, estimating communicating civilizations in the galaxy at anywhere from 1 to millions.
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01Sputnik 2 had no re-entry mechanism; Laika was always going to die — the lie was about when.
02Her body orbited Earth 2,570 times before the craft burned up in April 1958.
03One of her mission engineers, Oleg Gazenko, publicly apologized for her death decades later.
gnostek1 / 11A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…
01The Semper Augustus bulb peaked at 10,000 guilders — equal to ten times a skilled craftsman's annual wage.
02At the crash's peak, tulip futures contracts were sold in taverns for bulbs that hadn't yet grown.
03Some historians argue the 'mania' was exaggerated — only a narrow merchant class was ever truly exposed.