Simmons Bedding Company — gnostek

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01Simmons was bought and resold by seven successive PE firms between 1986 and 2009.
02Each sale loaded Simmons with new debt; by 2009 it carried $1.3 billion and filed for bankruptcy.
03Executives collected $77 million in fees and dividends in the final deal cycle before bankruptcy wiped out workers' pensions.

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01Casartelli died on July 18, 1995, during stage 15 of the Tour — a descent in the Pyrenees.
02The race organisation did not neutralise the stage; riders finished while Casartelli was airlifted, dying, to hospital.
03It was the first Tour fatality since British rider Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in 1967.

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Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

01Weimar inflation peaked at 29,500% per month in October 1923; a postage stamp cost 10 billion marks.
02The German government printed money to pay World War I reparations; by 1923, paper notes were cheaper as fuel than firewood.
03A new currency, the Rentenmark, was introduced November 15, 1923 — one Rentenmark exchanged for one trillion old marks.

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Tollund Man , Denmark, 4th century BC

01Tollund Man's last meal, eaten 12 hours before death, was barley-and-linseed porridge — still identifiable in his stomach.
02Many bog bodies show signs of 'overkill': strangled, throat cut, and then drowned — triple death rituals.
03The acidic, oxygen-free peat dissolves bone while perfectly tanning and preserving skin, hair, and internal organs.

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01Skanderbeg won 25 consecutive battles against the Ottomans between 1443 and his death in 1468.
02He was taken from his Christian family at age nine to serve as an elite Ottoman soldier.
03Pope Calixtus III called him 'Champion of Christendom'; his helmet and sword survive in Vienna today.

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01Amin's full self-declared title ran to 43 words, including 'Last King of Scotland' and 'CBE.'
02His regime expelled all 60,000 Asians from Uganda in 90 days in 1972, collapsing the economy.
03He ruled for eight years before a Tanzanian military invasion removed him in April 1979.

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01Hocquenghem published 'Homosexual Desire' in 1972, a year before Foucault's 'The Order of Things' was translated.
02He argued the anus is the one orifice capitalism cannot productively colonize — therefore, liberation lives there.
03Hocquenghem died of AIDS in 1988 at 41, after publicly refusing to hide his diagnosis.

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01Jones's documentary 'Trader' filmed him forecasting a 1987 market crash before Black Monday wiped 22% off the Dow.
02He reportedly tripled his money during Black Monday by holding massive short positions entering October 1987.
03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.

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01Oak Ridge, Tennessee — a city of 75,000 — was built in secret and omitted from maps.
02The Trinity test on July 16, 1945 vaporized the steel tower and fused desert sand into glass.
03J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was later revoked by the government he'd saved.

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