CIH (computer virus) — gnostek

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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.

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01The peregrine's stoop tops 240 mph — faster than a Formula 1 car at full race speed.
02Bony tubercles inside its nostrils slow incoming air so its lungs don't rupture at dive speed.
03Peregrine falcons hunt by diving from directly above, striking prey at angles that make escape geometrically impossible.

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01Laika died within 5–7 hours of launch from cabin overheating, not the planned day-six euthanasia.
02Sputnik 2 was built in under four weeks; there was never a design for her return.
03The Soviet government falsely reported she survived for several days after launch.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01Castra Regina was built in 179 CE to garrison Legio III Italica on the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
02The fort's massive sandstone corner tower, the Porta Praetoria, still rises above street level in central Regensburg today.
03Regensburg's medieval street grid follows the Roman fort's internal axes — the legionary plan still organizes a living city.

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01Mario Kart Wii sold 37.38 million copies, making it the best-selling Mario Kart entry in the series.
02The included Wii Wheel cost Nintendo almost nothing to manufacture, yet players consistently rated it as satisfying.
03Online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection let players race strangers worldwide — a first for console Mario Kart.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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