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01At Munich 1972, Bavarian police snipers had no radios to coordinate; they numbered five against eight Palestinian gunmen.
02GSG 9's first major operation, Mogadishu 1977, freed all 86 Lufthansa hostages; only one commando was lightly wounded.
03British SAS advisors provided concussion grenades — 'stun grenades' — used for the first time in a hostage rescue at Mogadishu.

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01Albuquerque personally promised the treasure to King Manuel I of Portugal; the ship broke apart before it reached Lisbon.
02The cargo reportedly included four bronze elephants and a 30-kilogram golden throne seized from the Sultan of Malacca.
03Portugal and Indonesia both claim jurisdiction over the wreck, making any legitimate salvage legally impossible for over a century.

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01Wittig delivered the argument 'One is Not Born a Woman' at the MLA convention in 1980, predating Judith Butler by a decade.
02She argued that the category 'woman' was a political and economic class, not a natural fact — making it dissolvable.
03Wittig fled France after her novel 'Les Guérillères' was condemned; she spent most of her career at the University of Arizona.

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01The blood on the boys' faces had to be wiped with wool soaked in milk — the boys were required to laugh.
02Women deliberately lined the streets to be struck by the goat-hide thongs, believing it guaranteed fertility.
03Pope Gelasius I tried to suppress Lupercalia in 494 AD, writing a furious letter that confirms it was still happening.

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North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise

01The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons of napalm on Korea — more than in any prior conflict in history.
02Napalm B, the refined thermite-gel formula, was tested and standardized for mass production during the Korean War.
03By 1953, U.S. Air Force reports noted there were few remaining targets in North Korea not already destroyed.

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01Army surgeons used Tarrare as a spy courier, hiding dispatches inside raw meat he swallowed whole.
02A 14-month-old infant disappeared from the hospital ward where Tarrare was confined; he was the prime suspect.
03His autopsy revealed a massively distended stomach, corroded organs, and a body riddled with tumors at death around age 26.

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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.

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01Angora wool grows up to 3 centimetres per month and must be harvested every 90 days to prevent matting.
02Ottoman sultans kept Angoras at Topkapi Palace; the breed's name derives from Ankara, the Ottoman capital.
03Modern Angoras can produce 1 kilogram of wool per year from a single rabbit — more than most sheep breeds yield proportionally.

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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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