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01Ephialtes of Trachis, a local shepherd, led Xerxes' Immortals through the Anopaea path overnight.
02King Leonidas reportedly sent most allied troops away before the final stand, keeping only those who chose death.
03The Spartan epitaph, attributed to Simonides, reads: 'Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.'

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01Each tin weighs exactly 30 grams and is labeled 'Artist's Shit, Contents 30 gr net.'
02The original gold-equivalent price in 1961 was roughly $37 per tin.
03No one has opened a tin to verify the contents; the mystery is part of the market value.

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01Paine wrote Part I of The Age of Reason in a single night before his arrest in December 1793.
02He was saved from the guillotine because a chalk mark on his door—the execution signal—faced inward, not out.
03The book was banned in Britain, and booksellers who sold it were sentenced to years of hard labor.

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01Cargill's annual revenues have exceeded $160 billion, surpassing the GDP of many mid-sized nations.
02Founded in 1865 in Conover, Iowa, the company has remained family-controlled for over 150 years.
03Cargill operates in 70 countries and handles an estimated 25% of all U.S. grain exports.

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01Prey's Talos I space station was designed as a coherent 1960s-retrofuturist structure with logical internal geography.
02The Mimics' shapeshifting was inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing and Stanisław Lem's Solaris.
03Players can craft a 'GLOO Cannon' that fires hardening foam, climbing station exteriors in zero gravity.

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01Amphetamines and a half-empty brandy flask were found in Simpson's jersey pocket after his death.
02He collapsed twice within 500 metres of the summit; mechanics propped him upright and he pedalled on.
03A granite memorial on Mont Ventoux still receives cycling caps, bidons, and coins left by passing riders.

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01The goatskin strips, called februa, gave February its name — the month of ritual purification.
02Two Luperci priests had their foreheads smeared with bloody sacrificial knife, then wiped with wool soaked in milk.
03Julius Caesar was offered the crown during Lupercalia in 44 BCE, three weeks before his murder.

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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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Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs initially blamed pigeon droppings in the antenna for the noise.
02The CMB temperature is 2.725 Kelvin — just 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, uniform to 1 part in 100,000.
03Its discovery in 1965 killed the Steady State model of the universe and confirmed the Big Bang.

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