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01Vitol's annual revenues have exceeded $300 billion, making it one of the highest-revenue companies in the world.
02The firm was founded in Rotterdam in 1966 by Henk Vietor and Jacques Detiger with a single cargo.
03Employee-ownership means Vitol has no external shareholders and publishes no public financial statements.

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Fritz Haber , 1918

01Haber's nitrogen fixation process now sustains roughly half of all human beings alive on Earth.
02He directed the April 22, 1915 chlorine attack at Ypres — 168 tons released in one morning.
03His wife Clara, also a chemist, shot herself with his service pistol days after Ypres.

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01Camarena's torture session lasted approximately 30 hours and was recorded in full on audiotape.
02His kidnappers used a doctor to keep him conscious through the ordeal — to extend it.
03The murder triggered Operation Leyenda, the largest DEA investigation ever conducted outside U.S. borders.

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01Ciskei troops killed 29 ANC marchers and wounded 200 on 7 September 1992 inside the Bisho stadium.
02The march was led by Ronnie Kasrils, who had identified a gap in the perimeter fence and ordered the crowd through it.
03Ciskei military ruler Oupa Gqozo, who ordered the defence, refused TRC amnesty and denied responsibility until 1999.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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01Thirty pieces of silver — the price paid — was roughly a month's wages for a laborer in Roman Judea.
02The Gospels cannot agree on how Judas died: Matthew says he hanged himself; Acts says his bowels burst open in a field.
03Dante placed Judas in the ninth and deepest circle of Hell, frozen in Satan's mouth alongside Brutus and Cassius.

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01The Robert Bosch Stiftung distributes roughly €200 million annually to health, education, and civil society causes.
02Bosch GmbH employs over 400,000 people across 60 countries, entirely outside stock market pressure.
03Robert Bosch introduced the world's first high-voltage magneto ignition for automobiles in 1897.

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Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .

01Krypteia initiates were given a knife and sent into the countryside to kill helots without witnesses.
02The ritual was supervised by the ephors — Sparta's top magistrates — making murder an official curriculum.
03Helots outnumbered Spartans roughly 7-to-1; the Krypteia was demographic terror dressed as a rite of passage.

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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.

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