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01The dividing line between Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd runs through Germany to this day, each operating independently.
02Together the two chains operate over 10,000 stores across more than 20 countries.
03Theo Albrecht was kidnapped in 1971 and held for 17 days before being released for a reported ransom of 7 million DM.

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01Born Crawford Goldsby, he killed his first man at eighteen over a dispute about a beating.
02He was hanged at Fort Smith in 1896 at age twenty — singing on the scaffold.
03Judge Isaac Parker sentenced him; the courtroom gallery reportedly fell silent when Cherokee Bill began to sing.

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01All 39 wore identical black Nike Decades — a detail the shoe brand quietly tried to suppress.
02At least 8 male members had voluntarily castrated themselves before the 1997 mass suicide.
03Leader Marshall Applewhite convinced followers their bodies were mere 'containers' for alien souls called 'Next Level beings.'

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01Mario Kart Wii sold 37.38 million copies, making it the best-selling Mario Kart entry in the series.
02The included Wii Wheel cost Nintendo almost nothing to manufacture, yet players consistently rated it as satisfying.
03Online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection let players race strangers worldwide — a first for console Mario Kart.

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Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

01The festival lasted several days in July, the hottest period of the Spartan calendar, with no shade permitted.
02Choral competitions involved three age groups — boys, men, and elders — performing simultaneously.
03When news of the defeat at Leuctra arrived mid-festival in 371 BC, the ephors refused to stop the dancing.

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01Rubin drew a literal concentric-circle diagram ranking sex acts from 'good' to 'bad' — published in an academic anthology.
02'Thinking Sex' was written during the 1984 Meese Commission panic, when the FBI was raiding adult bookstores.
03Rubin named sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and fetishism as unjustly condemned — while criticizing the condemnation, not endorsing harm.

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01Physio Steph Brennan made a real cut on Williams's lip with a scalpel to produce genuine blood post-capsule.
02The scheme was designed to exploit the 'blood bin' rule, allowing a specialist kicker back onto the field.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years; Brennan lost her medical registration.

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Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884)

01Llywelyn drove his sword through Gelert before seeing the wolf's carcass hidden beneath the cradle.
02The village of Beddgelert, Wales, is named for the hound; a grave monument still stands there.
03The legend is likely an 18th-century tourist invention planted by an innkeeper named David Pritchard.

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01The paintings date to at least 36,000 BCE, making them among the oldest figurative art on Earth.
02Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola's daughter María, age 8, first spotted the ceiling bison in 1879.
03The cave was declared a hoax by the scientific establishment for over 20 years before vindication came in 1902.

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