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01Jones called the rehearsals 'White Nights'; followers who survived them believed they'd proved their loyalty.
02Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on a jungle airstrip hours before the mass suicide began.
03Cyanide was injected by syringe into children's mouths; adults who fled were shot by guards.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'

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01The Old Norse word 'berserkr' likely means 'bear-shirt' — the warrior wore the animal's hide and its soul.
02King Harald Fairhair used berserkers as a personal shock unit at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, c. 872 AD.
03Later Norse law explicitly outlawed berserk behavior — it was treated as a crime once the state no longer needed it.

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01US pilots described the slaughter as a 'turkey shoot'; some refused further passes over the column.
02The carnage stretched 60 miles from Kuwait City toward Basra along a single road.
03Photos of charred Iraqi soldiers in their vehicles, published worldwide, pressured Bush to call the ceasefire.

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01Thomson published the paradox in 1954; the total switching time sums to exactly 2 minutes via geometric series.
02Standard mathematics is simply silent — both 'on' and 'off' are consistent with the premises.
03The paradox exposes that infinite processes with defined totals need not have defined final states.

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Skydiver Bill Booth 's second rule states that "The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order to keep the fatality rate constant."

01Peltzman's 1975 paper found US seatbelt laws produced no net reduction in traffic fatalities.
02He argued drivers treated safety gear as a 'risk budget' — spend it on faster driving.
03The effect has since been observed in helmets, airbags, and even surgical safety checklists.

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01Lorz was photographed accepting a laurel wreath from Alice Roosevelt before the fraud was discovered.
02He was initially disqualified for life, then reinstated within months and won the 1905 Boston Marathon legitimately.
03The actual 1904 Olympic marathon winner, Thomas Hicks, was fed strychnine and brandy mid-race by his handlers.

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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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