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01The prisoners had survived the Bataan Death March; some weighed under 100 pounds on liberation day.
02Filipino guerrillas blocked all four roads into Cabanatuan simultaneously to prevent Japanese reinforcement.
03The entire rescue and withdrawal took 30 minutes; not one of the 511 POWs was killed in the raid.

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01Theia is estimated to have been roughly the size of Mars — about half Earth's diameter.
02The impact was so energetic it likely vaporized Earth's entire surface and re-melted the mantle.
03Lunar rock isotopes match Earth's mantle so precisely they're nearly indistinguishable — Theia became us.

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01Super Mario Galaxy's soundtrack was performed live by a full orchestra — a first for the Mario series.
02The game's smallest planets are roughly 10 feet across in scale, making Mario a giant on his own worlds.
03A second player could join solely to catch and hold stardust, a gentle cooperative role for a younger sibling.

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01Physio Steph Brennan bit the capsule himself; the blood on his lips exposed the fraud immediately.
02The substituted player, Tom Williams, was later found to have also cut his own lip with a scalpel.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years over the scheme.

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01116 people died in the blast and subsequent fire; Abu Sayyaf was paid roughly $400 to execute the attack.
02The bomb was concealed inside a television set stored in the vessel's cargo hold.
03It remains the single deadliest terrorist attack on a civilian vessel in peacetime, worldwide.

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Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

01The festival lasted several days in July, the hottest period of the Spartan calendar, with no shade permitted.
02Choral competitions involved three age groups — boys, men, and elders — performing simultaneously.
03When news of the defeat at Leuctra arrived mid-festival in 371 BC, the ephors refused to stop the dancing.

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01Kendrick released five diss tracks in roughly two weeks during April–May 2024, an unprecedented pace.
02Drake's legal team sent cease-and-desist letters to Universal Music Group over specific lyrical allegations.
03'Not Like Us' became the fastest rap diss track to reach number one in Billboard Hot 100 history.

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01By late 1936, roughly 70% of Catalonia's economy was under worker collectivization, not state control.
02Barcelona's tram network was collectivized and running within days of the anarchist takeover of the city.
03George Orwell arrived in December 1936 and wrote that it was the first time he had seen a town where the working class was in the saddle.

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01Passenger Rupin Katyal was murdered aboard the aircraft during the eight-day standoff at Kandahar.
02India released Masood Azhar, who went on to found Jaish-e-Mohammed and is linked to subsequent attacks.
03The Taliban, then ruling Afghanistan, served as reluctant mediators — demanding India remove the plane from their territory.

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