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01Bertelsmann suppressed its own commissioned 1998 history after it misrepresented the company's wartime role.
02An independent commission found the company profited from the forced labor of Jewish prisoners during WWII.
03Today Bertelsmann owns Penguin Random House, RTL Group, and BMG — reaching billions of readers and viewers.

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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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01Chandrasekhar derived the 1.4 solar-mass limit — now called the Chandrasekhar limit — during the 1930 voyage to Cambridge.
02Arthur Eddington called the result 'stellar buffoonery' at the 1935 Royal Astronomical Society meeting, derailing his career for decades.
03He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 — 53 years after the steamship calculation.

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A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China

01An estimated 20,000 bears are currently held on bile farms in China and Vietnam, many in 'crush cages.'
02Bear bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid — a compound now synthesized cheaply in labs, making farming medically redundant.
03Moon bears on farms are often declawed and defanged at capture; some have been caged since cubhood.

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01Egil killed a boy at a childhood game, age seven; his mother praised him as future-Viking material.
02Captured by King Eiríkr Bloodaxe, Egil composed 'Höfuðlausn' overnight — the poem bought his head.
03He reportedly suffered a disfiguring bone disease now theorized as Paget's disease of the skull.

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01Two farmworkers, one aged 15, killed Terre'Blanche with a panga and a club on April 3, 2010.
02He was found face-down in his bedroom; his dogs, which he famously used to intimidate crowds, did not intervene.
03The 15-year-old received a lighter sentence; the older worker, Chris Mahlangu, was jailed for life.

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01Blaine was encased in a custom ice block in Times Square from November 27–29, 2000, for 63 hours.
02Compartment syndrome — caused by fluid pressure in immobile limbs — threatened amputation of both legs.
03He emerged hypothermic, his feet so damaged he required months of physical rehabilitation to walk normally.

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01A post-mortem analysis found that the majority of the 69 dead had been shot in the back, confirming they were fleeing when killed.
02Police fired 705 rounds in approximately 40 seconds; 180 people were wounded in addition to the 69 killed.
03The massacre directly triggered the UN Security Council's first-ever resolution condemning South Africa, passing on April 1, 1960.

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01Only the first kilometre of the cave is iced; the remaining 41 kilometres are limestone tunnels beyond the freeze zone.
02The cave was mapped by explorer Alexander von Mörk beginning in 1913; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1914, and his ashes were interred inside the cave.
03Air circulation within Eisriesenwelt keeps the ice formations frozen even when summer temperatures outside exceed 20°C.

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