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0112th-century geographers ranked Merv the world's largest city, with a population possibly exceeding 500,000.
02Mongol soldiers were each reportedly assigned quotas of civilians to execute personally at Merv in 1221.
03The irrigation canals (qanats) destroyed during the sack were never fully rebuilt; the surrounding farmland became permanent desert.

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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

01Cacareco's 100,000 votes made her the single highest vote-getter in the entire 1959 São Paulo council election.
02The rhino's name means 'rubbish' or 'worthless thing' in Brazilian Portuguese — the voters knew exactly what they were saying.
03Brazilian authorities annulled her votes, but the protest sparked international coverage of São Paulo's municipal disillusionment.

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Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009 until June 2020

01Trump's tweet on August 22, 2018, named Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as directed to 'closely study' the situation.
02South Africa's rand dropped 1.4% against the dollar within two hours of the tweet.
03The Fox News segment that prompted it aired only hours before Trump posted; no briefing was involved.

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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01Hannibal honored the oath: he crossed the Alps with 37 war elephants and killed 70,000 Romans at Cannae.
02Hamilcar died in battle in Spain in 228 BC, never seeing what his oath produced.
03The Barca family name meant 'lightning' in Phoenician — three of his sons became generals.

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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 surrender ceremony was held at Ramna Race Course, Dhaka, before a crowd of thousands.
02Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi signed for Pakistan; his army had held East Pakistan for nine months.
0393,000 soldiers surrendered — more than the German capitulation at Stalingrad in 1943.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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Fritz Haber , 1918

01Haber's nitrogen fixation process now sustains roughly half of all human beings alive on Earth.
02He directed the April 22, 1915 chlorine attack at Ypres — 168 tons released in one morning.
03His wife Clara, also a chemist, shot herself with his service pistol days after Ypres.

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