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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.

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01Buckminsterfullerene — C60 — has exactly 60 carbon atoms forming 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
02Harry Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley discovered it in 1985 and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
03C60 naturally occurs in the soot of candle flames and in the atmosphere of certain carbon-rich giant stars.

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01Arnold's plot was exposed only because André was stopped by three militia irregulars, none of them acting on official orders.
02Arnold escaped to British lines; André was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, aged 29.
03Arnold received £6,315 — less than a third of the agreed price — because the plot failed before completion.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01First baseman Chick Gandil organized the fix; the players received between $5,000 and $35,000, unevenly distributed.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson actually batted .375 in the Series and hit the only home run — yet was banned for life.
03Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned all eight players permanently, even after a jury acquitted them in 1921.

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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.

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01Maranzano modeled his five-family structure explicitly on the Roman legions, right down to the titles capo and soldier.
02Four men posing as IRS agents walked into his 230 Park Avenue office on September 10, 1931, and stabbed him six times before shooting him.
03He had already ordered the murder of Lucky Luciano scheduled for later that same week — Luciano moved first by hours.

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01The golden eagle throne alone weighed two tonnes and was cast by a French artisan firm.
02France bankrolled a significant portion of the ceremony through subsidies and military cooperation funds.
03The 6,000 invited dignitaries included no sitting heads of state — nearly all declined to attend.

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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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