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01The 2005 buyout left Toys 'R' Us paying $400 million per year in interest — money that could have funded e-commerce.
02When it filed for bankruptcy in 2017, all 735 U.S. stores closed, eliminating 33,000 jobs.
03After public pressure, the PE owners paid $20 million into a severance fund — less than $1,000 per laid-off worker.

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01Spinoza's 1656 cherem writ listed 'monstrous deeds' as the cause — no deed was ever named or recorded.
02He argued Moses did not write the Torah and that Scripture was compiled by Ezra centuries after the events.
03The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, his biblical critique, was placed on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books in 1679.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01The fix was orchestrated by Arnold Rothstein, a New York gambler who bankrolled $80,000 to throw the series.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and drove in six runs during the 'thrown' Series, yet was banned alongside the conspirators.
03All eight players were acquitted at trial in 1921 but were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Landis the next day.

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01Van de Velde's ball struck the grandstand rail, his own leg, and landed in deep rough — all on one shot.
02He stood in the water considering playing the submerged ball before finally taking a penalty drop.
03Paul Lawrie won the playoff at 6-over; Van de Velde had started the 18th at 6-under.

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01The photograph is called 'Piss Christ' and was printed at 60 × 40 inches.
02U.S. senators read the title aloud on the Senate floor in 1989 as evidence of federal depravity.
03A print was physically attacked with hammers by protesters in Avignon, France, in 2011.

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01Players hum into the Wii remote's mic to pacify aggressive sharks — no weapons, no struggle.
02The game features over 300 real species, each with naturalist notes written in a diver's field-journal style.
03A character named Oceana joins the player on dives, pointing out creatures by name as they pass.

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01Foucault planned six volumes; he finished three before dying of AIDS in 1984 at age 57.
02He argued the 19th-century confession booth and the psychiatrist's couch were the same machine, producing the sexual subject.
03Volume One, published 1976, sold over a million copies — extraordinary for a book dense with Nietzsche and Bentham.

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Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

01The festival lasted several days in July, the hottest period of the Spartan calendar, with no shade permitted.
02Choral competitions involved three age groups — boys, men, and elders — performing simultaneously.
03When news of the defeat at Leuctra arrived mid-festival in 371 BC, the ephors refused to stop the dancing.

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01Turnspit dogs worked in pairs, alternating hour-long shifts inside the wheel to keep roasts turning evenly.
02A preserved Turnspit specimen named 'Whiskey' is still on display at Abergavenny Museum in Wales.
03Once kitchen machinery replaced them in the 1800s, the breed was considered useless and died out within decades.

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