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01The ten attackers coordinated via Pakistani handlers on mobile phones throughout the siege.
02166 people were killed across 12 sites, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
03Sole surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab was hanged in Pune's Yerwada Jail on November 21, 2012.

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01Olive Oatman was sold between tribes — first held by Yavapai, then traded to the Mohave for two horses and blankets.
02The Mohave tattooed Olive's chin in a pattern they said would identify her in the afterlife.
03After her 1856 rescue, Olive wore a high collar to hide the tattoo but lectured publicly about her five years in captivity.

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01Spartacus's army defeated eight separate Roman forces before Crassus finally cornered them in 71 BC.
02The 6,000 crucified prisoners lined the road from Capua to Rome — each cross visible from the last.
03His corpse was never identified; Rome could not even stage a proper triumph over him.

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01Angora wool grows up to 3 centimetres per month and must be harvested every 90 days to prevent matting.
02Ottoman sultans kept Angoras at Topkapi Palace; the breed's name derives from Ankara, the Ottoman capital.
03Modern Angoras can produce 1 kilogram of wool per year from a single rabbit — more than most sheep breeds yield proportionally.

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Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) [ clarification needed ]

01Hydrogen atoms are small enough to diffuse through solid steel at room temperature without any visible entry point.
02High-strength steels above 1,000 MPa yield strength are most vulnerable — the stronger the steel, the worse the risk.
03The 2013 San Francisco Bay Bridge bolt failures were caused by hydrogen embrittlement in A354 grade rods.

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01Nobunaga deployed 3,000 firearms simultaneously — an unprecedented concentration for 16th-century Japan.
02Takeda Katsuyori lost roughly 10,000 men, including almost his entire elite cavalry force, in one engagement.
03Rotating volley fire at Nagashino predates its European adoption by decades, suggesting independent tactical invention.

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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.

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01Rubin drew a literal concentric-circle diagram ranking sex acts from 'good' to 'bad' — published in an academic anthology.
02'Thinking Sex' was written during the 1984 Meese Commission panic, when the FBI was raiding adult bookstores.
03Rubin named sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and fetishism as unjustly condemned — while criticizing the condemnation, not endorsing harm.

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