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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.

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01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.

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01At 18 days, the duck embryo has cartilage, a beak, and partially formed wings visible when cracked open.
02Balut is sold from street carts in Manila after dark, marketed as an aphrodisiac for around 15–20 Philippine pesos.
03Vietnamese balut (hot vit lon) is typically incubated longer — up to 21 days — producing a more developed fetus.

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01The group beheaded American missionary Martin Burnham's companion Gracia Burnham survived; Martin was killed in a rescue attempt in 2002.
02Abu Sayyaf received a $10 million ransom for 21 hostages taken from the Dos Palmas resort in 2001.
03The group's name translates to 'Bearer of the Sword' — beheading was doctrine, not improvisation.

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Facsimile of the Einstein–Szilard letter

01Einstein later called signing the letter 'the one great mistake of my life.'
02Szilárd drafted the letter; Einstein signed it — lending the weight of his name alone.
03Roosevelt's response was to appoint a Uranium Committee within weeks of receiving it.

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01Howard Scott Warshaw had 5.5 weeks to code it; a normal Atari game took 6–9 months.
02Atari pressed roughly 12 million cartridges for a console with only 10 million owners.
03A 2014 dig in Alamogordo pulled 1,300 cartridges from concrete-sealed desert landfill.

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01Attacker Shane Stant struck Kerrigan's knee with a collapsible baton on January 6, 1994, then fled through a plexiglass door.
02The hit cost $6,500; Gillooly later sold his story to a tabloid for a reported $50,000.
03Harding was banned for life from U.S. figure skating but was never formally banned from the 1994 Lillehammer Games.

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Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

01Rabbis at the Council of Jamnia, c. 90 CE, debated removing Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew Bible as heretical.
02The word 'hebel,' meaning vapor or breath, appears 38 times — it is the name of Abel, whom Cain killed.
03The final two verses, urging obedience to God, are considered by most scholars to be a later editorial addition.

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