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01Bokassa personally beat 100 schoolchildren in April 1979; at least 40 died in custody that week.
02He kept crocodiles and lions at his Berengo palace estate, which received confirmed human remains.
03A French war-crimes tribunal sentenced him to death in 1987; the sentence was later commuted to life.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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01Brancheau had 16 years at SeaWorld and was considered its most accomplished trainer at the time of her death.
02OSHA fined SeaWorld $75,000 and banned trainers from entering the water with orcas — a rule SeaWorld fought in court for years.
03Internal documents showed SeaWorld knew Tilikum had been involved in two prior deaths before Brancheau entered his pool.

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01McCartney used the placeholder lyric 'Scrambled eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs' while writing 'Yesterday.'
02'Yesterday' holds the Guinness record for most cover versions of any song — over 2,200 recorded artists.
03He dreamed the complete melody, woke, played it immediately, and told no one for weeks out of uncertainty.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01Spain was officially neutral; the SOE operation risked a diplomatic crisis with Franco's government.
02Agent Gus March-Phillipps led the team aboard the Italian ship Duchessa d'Aosta and captured her crew with chloroform.
03The ships' crews were overpowered and locked below decks; the vessels reached Lagos within hours.

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The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round from the GAU-8 Avenger

01Approximately 300 tons of depleted uranium ammunition were expended by US forces during the 1991 campaign.
02DU penetrators burn on impact, scattering radioactive oxide dust inhaled by soldiers and civilians alike.
03Basra pediatric wards recorded a sharp rise in childhood leukemia and birth defects through the 1990s.

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01DNA from seven skeletons in Kara-Djigach, Kyrgyzstan, matched Yersinia pestis, the Black Death bacterium, dated precisely to 1338.
02The graveyard headstones are inscribed with the Syriac word for 'pestilence' — the victims named the cause of their own deaths.
03This 2022 finding resolved a 700-year debate by placing the Black Death's origin 4,000 kilometers east of Europe.

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01Winchester built continuously for 38 years, from 1884 until her death in 1922, reportedly guided by nightly séances.
02The house has 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, and at least 3 doors opening directly onto exterior walls or sheer drops.
03Sarah inherited $20 million and roughly 50% of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company after her husband's death in 1881.

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