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01Saladin cut off the Crusaders' water supply during a July heatwave; his forces set the dry grass alight, driving smoke into the dying army.
02After the battle, Saladin executed all captured Knights Templar and Hospitaller personally, or paid his men one gold piece per execution.
03The True Cross — the most sacred relic of the Crusader states — was captured at Hattin and never recovered.

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01At least five Heaven's Gate men, including Applewhite, were surgically castrated before the 1997 mass suicide.
02Members left behind $5.75 farewell videos, each cheerfully explaining the 'next level' journey.
03Applewhite had been a music professor at the University of Alabama before his 1974 psychiatric hospitalization.

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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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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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01François Mitterrand ate two ortolans at his last meal, eight days before dying of prostate cancer.
02The bird is drowned in Armagnac brandy, roasted, then eaten skull-first, bones cracking in the mouth.
03Ortolan hunting has been illegal in France since 1999; the tradition continued in secret among the elite.

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A slab of pykrete

01Pykrete is 86% ice and 14% sawdust, yet it deflects rifle bullets without shattering.
02Project Habbakuk's planned carrier weighed 2 million tons — dwarfing every steel warship ever built.
03A small Pykrete block was demonstrated to Allied chiefs in a Quebec hotel bathtub in 1943.

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3D illustration of Gabriel's horn

01The horn's volume is exactly π cubic units — a clean, finite number.
02Its surface area is infinite, calculated by the same integral that gives the volume.
03Evangelista Torricelli discovered the paradox around 1643, calling it a 'mystical' geometric object.

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01High-speed cameras confirmed the BB was split at its equator; the cut was geometrically centered.
02At 200 mph, the pellet crosses sword range in under 0.004 seconds — faster than human reaction time.
03Neurologists studying Machii concluded he anticipates projectile paths using pre-motor spatial mapping, not reflexes.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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