01Black paid Epstein $158 million — more than Epstein earned from any other single client.
02He resigned as Apollo CEO in March 2021 after an independent review exposed the payments.
03Apollo managed over $455 billion in assets when its founder stepped down over the Epstein scandal.
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01Quinn's pager pinged 14 times the night he vanished — all from a single unidentified number.
02The live puppy found in Quinn's car had no known owner and was never traced to any source.
03Owens confessed in 2017 to killing Quinn; he had already been in prison for an unrelated cannibalism case.
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01The trulli's drystone construction allowed entire roofs to be collapsed in under an hour to evade the Kingdom of Naples tax census.
02Alberobello's trulli district contains over 1,500 of these structures, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
03The conical pinnacles on each roof bear whitewashed symbols — pagan, Christian, or astrological — whose meanings are locally disputed.
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01RENAMO was founded in 1977 by Rhodesian CIO officer Ken Flower specifically to destabilize the newly independent FRELIMO government in Maputo.
02After Rhodesia fell, South African military intelligence absorbed RENAMO entirely, funding and supplying it through the 1980s as a proxy Cold War force.
03RENAMO commanders ordered limb amputations to leave living evidence — they explicitly wanted victims to walk to the nearest village as a warning.
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01Taichang Emperor died on September 26, 1620 — his 29th day on the throne, cause officially undetermined.
02Court official Li Kezhuo supplied the red pills; he was later exiled but the formula remained secret.
03The 'Red Pill Case' became one of the Three Great Cases of the Wanli era, debated for centuries.
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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'
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01Wasendorf intercepted paper bank statements by rerouting his firm's mail to a personal P.O. box he controlled for two decades.
02The fraud totaled $215 million stolen from roughly 13,000 customers — discovered only when an automated ACH check failed.
03His 2012 suicide attempt failed; he was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison at age 64.
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01HeLa cells were mailed to labs globally within a year of harvest; Lacks died of the same cancer eight months after the biopsy.
02Her family learned the cells existed in 1973 — from a researcher who called asking for their DNA.
03A single gram of HeLa cells was sold commercially for around $25 in the 1950s; her estate received nothing.
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01The goatskin strips, called februa, gave February its name — the month of ritual purification.
02Two Luperci priests had their foreheads smeared with bloody sacrificial knife, then wiped with wool soaked in milk.
03Julius Caesar was offered the crown during Lupercalia in 44 BCE, three weeks before his murder.