Ed Gein — gnostek

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01Gein crafted a full 'woman suit' from skin to wear while dancing under the moonlight.
02Police found ten skulls — some sawn open, some used as bowls — at his farmhouse in 1957.
03He killed only two confirmed people; his most disturbing trophies came from exhumed graves.

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01Powell's February 5, 2003 presentation included a small vial he waved to illustrate anthrax quantities — it was theater.
02The Downing Street Memo, written months earlier, had already confirmed intelligence was being 'fixed around the policy.'
03Powell spent five years writing his memoirs partly to document how CIA chief George Tenet personally vouched for the data.

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01Over 7,000 amnesty applications were filed; only 1,512 were granted after public hearings.
02Security policeman Jeffrey Benzien demonstrated his 'wet bag' suffocation technique on a survivor in the hearing room.
03Victims' families received no veto over amnesty; the state's pardon was unconditional on full disclosure.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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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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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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01The killers, aged 19, committed at least 21 murders and filmed several of them for personal entertainment.
02The victim, Sergei Yatzenko, was beaten with a hammer, screwdriver, and pipe over several minutes.
03The video spread globally online before investigators identified the perpetrators partly through leaked footage.

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01Malala was 15 when shot on October 9, 2012; she had been named to a Taliban hit list months earlier.
02She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, at age 17, sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi.
03The Malala Fund she co-founded has invested in girls' education across twelve countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria.

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01The coins were in near-mint condition, suggesting they were buried quickly and never circulated — someone's emergency fund, sealed and forgotten.
02One 1866-S No Motto $20 gold piece in the hoard was worth $1 million alone due to its extreme rarity.
03The couple, who kept their names private, found the cans buried in a gold rush–era mining region of the Sierra Nevada foothills.

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