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01'Back to Back' was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2016 Grammys — the first diss track ever nominated.
02Meek Mill had alleged via Twitter that Drake used ghostwriter Quentin Miller, then released no musical response for weeks.
03Drake performed the song at the OVO Fest with a Meek Mill bobblehead onstage, institutionalizing the humiliation.

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Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs initially blamed pigeon droppings in the antenna for the noise.
02The CMB temperature is 2.725 Kelvin — just 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, uniform to 1 part in 100,000.
03Its discovery in 1965 killed the Steady State model of the universe and confirmed the Big Bang.

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01Freud's 1884 paper 'Über Coca' celebrated cocaine as a cure for morphine addiction; he prescribed it directly to patients.
02His colleague Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, given cocaine by Freud to treat morphine dependence, died in 1891 of cocaine toxicity.
03Freud's biographer Ernest Jones downplayed the cocaine episode for decades; the full record was not examined until the 1970s.

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01Physio Steph Brennan bit the capsule himself; the blood on his lips exposed the fraud immediately.
02The substituted player, Tom Williams, was later found to have also cut his own lip with a scalpel.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years over the scheme.

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01The Friend refused all gendered pronouns for over forty years, insisting the prior self had literally ceased to exist.
02At the movement's height, the Friend led a community of hundreds at Jerusalem, New York, founded in 1788.
03Colonial crowds gathered in thousands to hear the Friend preach — a figure who claimed to carry no earthly name or sex.

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01Milken paid a $600 million fine in 1990 — the largest securities-industry penalty recorded to that point.
02He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993 and subsequently donated hundreds of millions to cancer research.
03Donald Trump pardoned Milken in February 2020, 30 years after his guilty plea to securities fraud.

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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.

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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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01Radcliffe was given five weeks to partition a subcontinent he had never visited, then paid £3,000.
02The line split the Punjab in half; within months, an estimated 200,000 people were dead.
03Radcliffe burned his working papers before departing India, erasing the record of his deliberations.

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