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01Morris's Everest dispatch reached London on June 2, 1953 — timed to coincide with Queen Elizabeth II's coronation morning.
02She underwent surgery in Casablanca in 1972, at a time when the procedure was unavailable in Britain.
03'Conundrum,' published in 1974, is still in print and regarded as a landmark work of autobiographical literature.

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01Parton's $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 was credited in Moderna's early vaccine research acknowledgments.
02When Tennessee proposed a capitol statue of her, she personally requested the legislature withdraw the bill.
03She established the Imagination Library in 1995, which has since mailed over 200 million free books to children.

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01Golden eagle talons exert 750 psi on impact — exceeding the bite force of most large predators.
02Mongol hunters trained golden eagles to take wolves and foxes across the Central Asian steppe.
03The eagle appears on the flags or seals of over a dozen modern nation-states.

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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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Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

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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Langton's ant after 11,000 steps. A red pixel shows the ant's location.

01The 'highway' pattern — a repeating 104-step diagonal corridor — emerges reliably around step 10,000.
02Christopher Langton described the ant in 1986; the highway emergence remains unproven from first principles.
03The ant is Turing-complete: given an infinite grid, it can simulate any computation.

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01Radcliffe was given five weeks to partition a subcontinent he had never visited, then paid £3,000.
02The line split the Punjab in half; within months, an estimated 200,000 people were dead.
03Radcliffe burned his working papers before departing India, erasing the record of his deliberations.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01First baseman Chick Gandil organized the fix; the players received between $5,000 and $35,000, unevenly distributed.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson actually batted .375 in the Series and hit the only home run — yet was banned for life.
03Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned all eight players permanently, even after a jury acquitted them in 1921.

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01The 'Nude Oblivion' patch was live within 24 hours of launch; it required no new geometry, only a texture swap.
02Bethesda's inclusion of the meshes forced the ESRB to re-rate Oblivion from Teen to Mature after release.
03The rating change cost retailers who had already shelved Teen-rated stock — a first in ESRB enforcement history.

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