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01Comey's letter was sent October 28, 2016 — eleven days before Election Day — to eight congressional leaders.
02A second letter, clearing Clinton again, arrived November 6, just two days before voters went to the polls.
03Nate Silver's post-election analysis concluded the letter likely shifted enough votes to decide the outcome.

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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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01The id team rented office space in a Mesquite, Texas strip mall directly above a little Caesar's pizza.
02Carmack's BSP rendering engine was so fast the team's benchmark software could not time it accurately.
03Doom was installed on more PCs than Windows 95 within its first year, according to Bill Gates's own team.

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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03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.

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01The game has no combat system, no health bar, and no way to lose — only the ocean and its creatures.
02A humpback whale named Matthew appears at a specific depth and time of in-game day, and players sought him out.
03Endless Ocean was developed by Arika, a small studio best known for Street Fighter EX — an unlikely tenderness.

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A block of silica aerogel in a hand.

01Silica aerogel holds 15 Guinness World Records, including lowest-density solid ever produced at 1.9 mg/cm³.
02NASA used aerogel blankets to insulate the Mars Pathfinder rover against temperatures of −80 °C.
03Aerogel can support up to 4,000 times its own weight before the nano-silica structure collapses.

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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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01The original Xbox was bundled with Halo: Combat Evolved, selling 8 million units in its first two years.
02Bungie designed the ring's open landscapes specifically to make players feel dwarfed by alien architecture.
03The Flood parasite, introduced midgame without warning, pivoted the entire tone of the campaign in a single corridor.

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01Quinn's pager pinged 14 times the night he vanished — all from a single unidentified number.
02The live puppy found in Quinn's car had no known owner and was never traced to any source.
03Owens confessed in 2017 to killing Quinn; he had already been in prison for an unrelated cannibalism case.

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