01Ten people were killed and three wounded across Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. in 23 days.
02The snipers fired from a hole cut in the trunk of a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
03Malvo was 17 at the time of the attacks; Muhammad was executed by Virginia in 2009.
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01A neutron star packs 1.4 solar masses into a sphere roughly 20 km across.
02Its surface gravity is 200 billion times Earth's — a marshmallow dropped from 1 meter hits with nuclear-bomb force.
03The crust is so rigid that a 'starquake' of 1 mm releases more energy than the Sun emits in 100,000 years.
gnostek1 / 3The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine
01Apicius reportedly spent 100 million sestertii on food; when 10 million remained, he poisoned himself rather than eat cheaply.
02His cookbook, 'De Re Coquinaria,' lists recipes requiring flamingo tongue, dormouse stuffed with pine nuts, and roasted parrot.
03He reputedly drowned a live mullet in a fish sauce vat to watch it change color as it died, for aesthetic pleasure.
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01The Palace of the Parliament is the world's heaviest building at roughly 4,098,500 tonnes.
02Ceaușescu demolished 19 Orthodox churches and 6 synagogues to clear the construction site.
03So much of Romania's national budget was consumed that winters in the 1980s brought nationwide blackouts and food rationing.
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01He masturbated continuously for eight hours a day across a three-week run at Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
02His spoken fantasies targeted specific visitors by the sound of their footsteps — personalizing each encounter.
03The performance was titled 'Seedbed' — framing his semen as planting something in the gallery's ground.
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01Apollo was founded in 1990 with $400 million raised in just weeks after Drexel's collapse.
02Black was barred by the SEC from serving as an investment adviser — Apollo structured around the restriction.
03By 2023, Apollo Global Management oversaw roughly $600 billion in assets under management.
gnostek1 / 2Plot of Weierstrass function over the interval [ − 2, 2]. Like some other fractals , the function exhibits self-similarity : every zoom (red circle) is similar to the global plot.
01It's defined as an infinite sum of cosines with ever-increasing frequencies and shrinking amplitudes.
02Hermite called it a 'dreadful plague' in an 1893 letter to Stieltjes — mathematicians felt personally wronged.
03Before Weierstrass, the consensus was that continuous functions must be smooth almost everywhere — he ended that.
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01Buckminsterfullerene — C60 — has exactly 60 carbon atoms forming 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
02Harry Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley discovered it in 1985 and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
03C60 naturally occurs in the soot of candle flames and in the atmosphere of certain carbon-rich giant stars.
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01Spencer's DNA conviction in 1994 was the first execution in U.S. history based solely on genetic evidence.
02His DNA simultaneously exonerated David Vasquez, who had falsely confessed and served five years for one murder.
03Spencer killed four women in the Richmond area between 1987 and 1988; he was called 'The Southside Strangler.'