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01The $25 billion 1989 buyout held the record as the largest LBO for 17 years.
02CEO Ross Johnson proposed the buyout himself, expecting to walk away with a $100 million golden parachute.
03The deal inspired 'Barbarians at the Gate,' which sold over a million copies and became an HBO film.

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01The 1968 Belice earthquake killed 231 people and leveled Gibellina entirely; Burri began his concrete burial in 1984.
02The cretto covers roughly 80,000 square meters — nearly the footprint of the entire original town — at 1.6 meters of white concrete.
03Burri left the street grid intact beneath the concrete as negative space: you can walk the town's roads, between walls that go nowhere.

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01He mailed Mari Konno's cremated bones and teeth to her family along with a postcard taunting them.
02Miyazaki drank the blood of one victim and gnawed her hands before returning her skeleton to her home.
03His bedroom contained 5,763 videotapes, mostly horror films and anime, stacked floor to ceiling.

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01Sue's foot bones show gout — a metabolic disease never before diagnosed in a non-avian dinosaur.
02The jaw lesions match trichomonosis, a parasite that today kills pigeons by dissolving bone from inside.
03Sue sold at auction in 1997 for $8.36 million, then a world record for any fossil.

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01India disguised its Pokhran-II preparations from US satellites by mimicking agricultural activity around the shafts.
02The CIA's failure to detect the tests led to a formal congressional inquiry and an internal postmortem.
03India's five detonations on May 11–13, 1998 triggered immediate US, Japanese, and EU economic sanctions.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01The SAPS Rural Safety Unit was disbanded in 2007, citing budget restructuring, not case clearance rates.
02South Africa's overall murder conviction rate hovers near 12%; farm attack cases track even lower.
03Parliamentary testimony documented dockets physically removed from police stations before court dates.

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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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Langton's ant after 11,000 steps. A red pixel shows the ant's location.

01The 'highway' pattern — a repeating 104-step diagonal corridor — emerges reliably around step 10,000.
02Christopher Langton described the ant in 1986; the highway emergence remains unproven from first principles.
03The ant is Turing-complete: given an infinite grid, it can simulate any computation.

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