01Oxygen inside Biosphere 2 fell from 21% to 14.5% — equivalent to altitude sickness at 13,400 feet.
02Morning glories choked the crops; the crew ate their emergency seed stock to survive.
03A secret oxygen injection was pumped in, which the management initially denied to the press.
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01The siege ran from May 23 to October 23, 2017 — 154 days of urban combat in a city of 200,000.
02Philippine government forces sustained 165 killed; civilian death toll exceeded 800.
03The battle displaced approximately 360,000 residents; large sections of Marawi remain uninhabitable years later.
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01Ethiopian forces numbered roughly 100,000 against Italy's 17,700 — but Italian commanders didn't know the gap.
02The four Italian columns were separated by terrain that made mutual reinforcement impossible during the March 1, 1896 battle.
03Adwa became the first decisive defeat of a European colonial army by an African nation — and it held.
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01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
gnostek1 / 9Kurt Debus (front row, third from the left), a former V-2 rocket scientist and SS officer who became a NASA director, sitting between US president John F. Kennedy and US vice president Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse…
01Wernher von Braun, architect of the Saturn V moon rocket, had been an SS officer who used slave labor at Mittelwerk.
02The State Department and DOJ were deliberately kept out of early recruitment to bypass immigration law.
03Operation Paperclip files were classified until 1999; some scientists died with full U.S. military pensions.
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01Andrews swallowed 27 swords simultaneously, the highest count ever verified by Guinness.
02Each blade must pass the pharynx and travel the full length of the esophagus into the stomach.
03The act takes years of conditioning — early practitioners regularly perforated their own esophagi.
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01Anderson wore a scalp necklace into the Centralia raid of September 27, 1864, where his men killed 124 Union soldiers.
02He kept a silk cord knotted with a notch for every man he personally killed; the cord held over 50 knots.
03Shot through the head and killed at age 24, his corpse was propped up, photographed, and displayed in a Richmond, Missouri storefront.
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01Computer models show the tail tip could exceed 340 m/s — the speed of sound — generating a crack audible for miles.
02The tail contained roughly 80 vertebrae, more than almost any other structure in the animal kingdom.
03Diplodocus's neck was held nearly horizontal, not upright — it grazed low like a vacuum cleaner the length of a bus.
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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.