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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 Enigma machine and its current rotor settings were seized from the armed trawler Krebs before she sank.
02315 Norwegian volunteers chose to sail back to Britain with the raiding force to join the Free Norwegian forces.
03The rotor settings recovered on March 4, 1941 allowed Bletchley Park to read Naval Enigma traffic for weeks.

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01The Asiatic Vespers of 88 BC killed an estimated 80,000 Romans and Italians in one coordinated dawn massacre.
02Mithridates reportedly ate small doses of every known poison daily to build immunity — a practice still called mithridatism.
03Rome fought him across three separate wars spanning 40 years; he survived all three until suicide in 63 BC.

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Plot of shear rate as a function of the shear stress. Dilatants in green.

01A pool of cornstarch-water mix is runnable: fast footsteps keep you on the surface; standing still, you sink.
02BAE Systems developed d3o armour using dilatant polymers that stiffen on impact within milliseconds.
03The same shear-thickening principle appears in Kevlar vests soaked in silica nanoparticle fluid, improving stab resistance by 45%.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01The smuggler added Bondo-brand car putty to the snout to inflate the fossil's apparent completeness and price.
02Scientists spent months chiseling out the fake material before they could study the actual bone underneath.
03Irritator challengeri's species name honors Professor Challenger, the fictional explorer from Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

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01Drew's cattle-watering trick added hundreds of pounds per animal before the weighmaster's scale.
02He printed $10 million in unauthorized Erie Railroad shares to defeat Cornelius Vanderbilt's takeover bid in 1868.
03Drew died broke in 1879, his entire fortune lost in the panic he had helped engineer.

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01Hostages were separated by nationality within hours; non-Jewish passengers were released at Entebbe, Uganda, on July 1, 1976.
02The Israeli raid, Operation Thunderbolt, lasted 53 minutes on the ground; 102 hostages were freed.
03One hostage, Dora Bloch, was left behind in a Kampala hospital; Ugandan soldiers murdered her the next day.

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Facsimile of the Einstein–Szilard letter

01Einstein later called signing the letter 'the one great mistake of my life.'
02Szilárd drafted the letter; Einstein signed it — lending the weight of his name alone.
03Roosevelt's response was to appoint a Uranium Committee within weeks of receiving it.

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