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01The Xi'an Stele was carved in 781 AD, buried sometime after 845 AD during the anti-foreign religion purges, and rediscovered by workers in 1625.
02It describes the arrival of the Nestorian monk Alopen in Chang'an in 635 AD and his audience with Emperor Taizong.
03Jesuit missionaries who found it in 1625 considered it a forgery — it was too convenient a proof of ancient Chinese Christianity.

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01Bertelsmann suppressed its own commissioned 1998 history after it misrepresented the company's wartime role.
02An independent commission found the company profited from the forced labor of Jewish prisoners during WWII.
03Today Bertelsmann owns Penguin Random House, RTL Group, and BMG — reaching billions of readers and viewers.

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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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01Camarena's torture session lasted approximately 30 hours and was recorded in full on audiotape.
02His kidnappers used a doctor to keep him conscious through the ordeal — to extend it.
03The murder triggered Operation Leyenda, the largest DEA investigation ever conducted outside U.S. borders.

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01The Radicalesbians distributed the manifesto at the 1970 Second Congress to Unite Women after cutting the lights and storming the stage.
02The text declared that a woman-identified woman was the 'rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion.'
03It reframed 'lesbian' from a sexual category into a political one, a move NOW's Betty Friedan had called 'the lavender menace' months earlier.

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01Didius Julianus outbid rival Sulpicianus at the Praetorian camp gate in a literal shouted auction.
02The Guard murdered at least a dozen emperors over three centuries of Roman history.
03Septimius Severus disbanded the Guard after 193 CE, then quietly rebuilt it larger under his own loyalists.

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01The Diamond Sutra's colophon reads: 'printed on 11 May 868 AD by Wang Jie for free distribution' — the first named printer in history.
02It is 5.4 meters long, printed on seven strips of paper glued end to end, and found rolled in Dunhuang's Cave 17.
03The text instructs readers that the sutra itself is a raft to be discarded once you cross — the book commands its own obsolescence.

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01Merckx was punched in the kidney by a fan on Puy-de-Dôme, cracking a bone mid-climb.
02He still finished second overall in 1975, riding the final weeks in documented, measurable pain.
03That punch ended his shot at a record sixth Tour de France title — he never won again.

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

01By November 1923, one US dollar equaled 4.2 trillion German marks.
02Workers carried wages in wheelbarrows; thieves stole the wheelbarrow and dumped the cash.
03Wallpaper and firewood were cheaper than banknotes as fuel — Germans burned money to heat homes.

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