Hegesias of Cyrene — gnostek

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01Hegesias' lectures in Alexandria caused enough suicides that Ptolemy II issued a formal ban on his teaching.
02His lost book 'Death by Starvation' narrated a man arguing himself into suicide step by logical step.
03He held that pleasure was impossible to sustain, making life a permanent accounting loss — every time.

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01Eight victims were killed in four separate incidents along a 23-mile Virginia National Park Service road.
02Investigators believe the perpetrator may have impersonated a law enforcement officer to approach victims.
03As of 2024, no suspect has ever been charged; the FBI lists the Colonial Parkway murders as unsolved.

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01Gallium's melting point is 29.8 °C; it liquefies sitting in a warm hand.
02A few grams of gallium smeared on an aluminium beam will cause structural failure within hours.
03Gallium is banned from commercial aircraft cabins by FAA regulation for exactly this reason.

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01Cerberus paid $7.4 billion for Chrysler in May 2007; Chrysler filed for bankruptcy by April 2009.
02Daimler paid Cerberus $650 million to take Chrysler off its hands — a negative sale price.
03The U.S. government ultimately injected $12.5 billion to rescue the company Cerberus had just bought.

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01Dillon's 1946 phalloplasty, performed by Sir Harold Gillies, was the first such procedure recorded in medical history.
02After his trans identity was exposed in the British press in 1958, Dillon fled to India within weeks.
03He died in a Tibetan monastery in 1962, having taken the monastic name Jivaka — a classical Buddhist physician-saint.

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01Cronje initially denied all charges; he confessed only after Indian police played him recordings of his own phone calls.
02One payment was a leather jacket plus $10,000–$15,000 cash to influence a limited-overs match against India in 2000.
03He was banned for life in October 2000 and died in a cargo plane crash in June 2002, aged 32.

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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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01The pig's campaign slogan was 'They nominate a president and he eats the people; we nominate a president and the people eat him.'
02Abbie Hoffman and six co-conspirators were charged; Pigasus was confiscated by Chicago police and sent to a farm.
03The nomination was filed as a genuine political statement against both major parties at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.

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