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01The fake Amin motorcade included a Land Rover and seven Israeli commandos in Ugandan army uniforms.
02Yoni Netanyahu, the only Israeli commando killed, was shot by a Ugandan soldier on the tarmac.
03Israeli C-130s flew 2,500 miles round-trip, refuelling secretly in Kenya, with no prior permission granted.

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01A neutron star packs 1.4 solar masses into a sphere roughly 20 km across.
02Its surface gravity is 200 billion times Earth's — a marshmallow dropped from 1 meter hits with nuclear-bomb force.
03The crust is so rigid that a 'starquake' of 1 mm releases more energy than the Sun emits in 100,000 years.

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01DeSimone arrived expecting to be 'made'; the ceremony was a staged execution ordered by the Gambino family.
02His body was never found — a point Goodfellas preserves almost verbatim in its final act.
03DeSimone had already killed at least nine people, including made man Billy Batts, sealing his fate with the bosses.

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01Hapilon's 2014 bayah to al-Baghdadi was among the earliest Southeast Asian pledges to the Islamic State.
02The pledge reframed Abu Sayyaf's criminal ransom operations as acts of caliphate warfare.
03By 2017, the alliance produced the Marawi siege — the largest urban ISIS battle outside the Middle East.

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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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01Jackson was hit by three bullets from the 18th North Carolina Infantry — his own rear guard.
02His left arm was amputated; Lee said 'he has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.'
03Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 — eight days after the friendly-fire volley.

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01Chopin died October 17, 1849; the game's story ends on that exact date inside the dream world.
02Each in-game musical piece is performed by an orchestra and corresponds to a real Chopin opus number.
03The final boss fight plays Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu — a piece he explicitly asked to be destroyed unpublished.

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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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01Medieval ultramarine cost more per ounce than gold; patrons had to specify it in painting contracts.
02The sole source was the Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mine in Afghanistan's Kokcha River valley, mined since 7000 BC.
03Lapis beads from Badakhshan have been found in Mesopotamian royal tombs dating to 3000 BC — a 5,000-year supply chain.

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