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01The team launched from a 70-foot fishing vessel, the Krait, disguised with stain and sarongs as local fishermen.
02Seven Japanese ships totalling approximately 37,000 gross tons were sunk or damaged on September 26–27, 1943.
03The entire six-man team survived and returned to Australia — one of very few WWII special ops with zero losses.

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01Attacker Shane Stant struck Kerrigan's knee with a collapsible baton on January 6, 1994, then fled through a plexiglass door.
02The hit cost $6,500; Gillooly later sold his story to a tabloid for a reported $50,000.
03Harding was banned for life from U.S. figure skating but was never formally banned from the 1994 Lillehammer Games.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01Menchú dictated her entire autobiography in Spanish over eight continuous days to anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray.
02She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, becoming the youngest recipient at the time, at age 33.
03Her testimony helped document over 200,000 civilian deaths and disappearances in Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

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An electric steam iron

01A standard sad iron weighed between 5 and 9 pounds and was heated directly on a coal or wood stove.
02Women typically owned three irons, cycling them on the stove to maintain continuous pressing heat.
03The word 'sad' derives from Old English 'sæd,' meaning dense or heavy — not the emotion.

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01The loris activates venom by rubbing its arm gland against its mouth before biting — a two-step weapon assembly.
02Its slow movement is not timidity; it is a mimic of the venomous Asian krait snake.
03Viral 'tickling' videos show lorises raised with clipped teeth — a mutilation done to make them safe pets.

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Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

01Kuru, spread by endocannibalism among the Fore people, killed an estimated 1,100 people between 1957 and 2004.
02Women and children ate the brain and organs; men ate muscle — explaining why women died at far higher rates.
03Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek identified kuru's prion cause in 1976 after living with the Fore for years.

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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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01Casartelli won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; he died in the Tour just three years later.
02He struck a concrete drainage block on the descent; the impact fractured his skull fatally.
03His Motorola teammates rode stage 16 as a memorial procession, refusing to race, letting Lance Armstrong cross alone.

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