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01The Mongols used a pontoon bridge to cross the Sajó River at night before the April 11, 1241 assault.
02King Béla IV escaped on horseback; the Mongols pursued him across three countries.
03Survivors described fields so dense with corpses that travelers navigated by the smell for years.

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01The Tate Modern, MoMA, and the Pompidou each own at least one tin.
02Some tins have expanded over decades, suggesting fermentation is still occurring inside.
03Manzoni produced them in two months; he died of a heart attack at age 29, two years later.

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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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01Hayashi killed 19 enemy soldiers in one engagement near Tendola, Italy, in April 1945.
02His Medal of Honor was withheld for 55 years; a 1996 law ordered a review of all Japanese American WWII awards.
03He was one of 21 Japanese Americans upgraded to Medal of Honor in a single White House ceremony in June 2000.

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The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.

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01The decree was first invoked in 121 BC to justify killing Gaius Gracchus and 3,000 of his supporters.
02It suspended habeas corpus entirely — no trial, no appeal, just consular authority to execute.
03Caesar crossed the Rubicon partly because he feared a senatus consultum ultimum would be levelled at him.

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01Nixon gave no advance notice to the IMF, the G10, or allied finance ministers before the August 15, 1971 broadcast.
02The U.S. held only $10 billion in gold reserves against $80 billion in foreign-held dollar claims at the time.
03The 'temporary' 10% import surcharge Nixon imposed that night was never formally repealed under its original authority.

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01The Black Mesa Research Facility was designed as a structurally plausible underground complex spanning multiple biomes.
02Half-Life won over 50 'Game of the Year' awards in 1998, more than any title before it.
03Valve's follow-up Half-Life 2 in 2004 shipped with the Source engine, revolutionizing physics simulation in games.

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01Winchester built continuously for 38 years, from 1884 until her death in 1922, reportedly guided by nightly séances.
02The house has 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, and at least 3 doors opening directly onto exterior walls or sheer drops.
03Sarah inherited $20 million and roughly 50% of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company after her husband's death in 1881.

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