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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 fundraiser cost $50,000 per plate; the bartender, Scott Prouty, filmed it on a Sony camera.
02Romney said the 47% who pay no income tax will 'vote for the president no matter what' — meaning Obama.
03Prouty came forward publicly on MSNBC three months after the election, explaining he acted on conscience.

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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.

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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.

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01Director T.F. Mous obtained a real child's body from a local hospital to film the autopsy sequence.
02China banned the film; Hong Kong screened it; it grossed over HK$6 million in its opening week.
03Live rats were reportedly set on fire for one sequence, prompting an SPCA investigation in Hong Kong.

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01Sakato killed or captured 34 enemy soldiers in a single charge after watching his friend Saburo Tanamachi die.
02He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1945; the Medal of Honor upgrade took 55 more years.
03Sakato said he acted 'in a rage' — not heroism — and was uncomfortable receiving the medal for the rest of his life.

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01Chopin died October 17, 1849; the game's story ends on that exact date inside the dream world.
02Each in-game musical piece is performed by an orchestra and corresponds to a real Chopin opus number.
03The final boss fight plays Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu — a piece he explicitly asked to be destroyed unpublished.

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01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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01Huguely had sent Love an email warning 'I should have killed you' weeks before her death in May 2010.
02Love was found face-down in a blood-soaked pillow; Huguely had kicked her bedroom door off its hinges.
03Huguely's family settled a civil suit for $7.5 million; he is serving a 23-year prison sentence.

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