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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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Kanuni i Lek Dukagjinit

01The Kanun stipulates that a murdered man's blood must be repaid with blood — no cash settlement is valid.
02It grants full sanctuary to anyone inside a host's house; killing a guest inverts the feud obligation onto the host's killer.
03Albanian courts in the 1990s recorded defendants invoking Kanun as a legal defense for homicide.

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01Weeks before the murders, Andreas Gruber reported hearing footsteps in the attic and finding an unknown newspaper on his farm.
02All six bodies — including a 2-year-old — were found in the barn, stacked under hay.
03The case was never solved; suspects were interviewed, but the last known person to examine the crime scene skulls died in WWII bombing.

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01Doe was 28 years old and held no officer's rank when he personally led the executive mansion raid.
02The beach executions of 13 ministers on April 22, 1980 were filmed and broadcast internationally.
03Doe was himself captured in 1990, tortured, and killed on video by Prince Johnson's rebel faction.

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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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01The ISS has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 — over 24 unbroken years.
02Astronauts lose up to 1–2% bone density per month; a six-month mission equals a decade of aging.
03The station's solar arrays cover 2,500 square meters — larger than a U.S. football field.

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01Burden gave a single instruction: 'Shoot me.' The assistant complied from 15 feet away.
02No hospital record was filed immediately; Burden treated the wound himself that night.
03The piece, 'Shoot,' appeared in no gallery at the time — it was performed in a rented garage.

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01The Montagnana cello Ma left behind was crafted in Venice in 1733 and is valued at approximately $2.5 million.
02New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission located the cab within one hour using trip records.
03Ma has since performed in conflict zones and refugee camps as part of his Silk Road Ensemble, founded in 1998.

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01The explosion created a crater 170 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep on July 30, 1864.
02Generals ordered troops into the crater itself rather than around it; Confederate fire from the rim was uncontested.
03Union losses: 3,798 men in under four hours. Grant called it 'the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war.'

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