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Francisco Macías Nguema killed or exiled roughly one-third of Equatorial Guinea's 300,000 citizens, banned the word 'intellectual,' and had the country's last lubricating oil poured into the ocean to prevent escape by boat.

Ocaña led Eddy Merckx by 9 minutes — the greatest gap in Tour history — when a Pyrenean thunderstorm dissolved the road under him in 1971. He crashed; Merckx refused to wear yellow the next day.

In spring 2024, Kendrick Lamar alleged Drake had a secret daughter in addition to the already-hidden son — across certified gold and platinum releases. Two children, neither confirmed, both now public record.

Estelle Ishigo was white, American-born, and under no legal obligation to be interned. She followed her Japanese American husband Arthur into Poston, Arizona, anyway — and drew what she saw. Her sketches are among the only civilian visual records of camp life.

Mugabe's hyperinflation peaked in November 2008 at 89.7 sextillion percent monthly; Zimbabwe issued a $100 trillion banknote that could not buy a bus ticket, while life expectancy fell to 37 — the world's lowest.

Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, was placed on a presidential kill list, denied due process in U.S. courts, and killed by CIA drone in Yemen in September 2011. His lawyers were told they needed a license to represent him.

A single fugu pufferfish carries tetrodotoxin enough to kill 30 adults; there is no antidote. Japanese chefs must train three years and pass a written and practical exam — the failure rate exceeds 35%.

Congress approved a supercollider larger than the LHC, dug 23 km of tunnel under Waxahachie, Texas, then cancelled it in 1993 mid-bore — $2 billion already spent, hole still in the ground.

Woven rattan, swung hard against hanging rugs in the yard every spring — the carpet beater was killed by one invention, the vacuum cleaner, within thirty years of its own peak production.