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01David Greybeard was the first wild chimpanzee to accept Goodall's presence — and the first observed using a grass stem as a tool.
02Goodall had no formal science degree when Louis Leakey sent her to Gombe in 1960; he preferred it that way.
03She has traveled over 300 days per year for the past three decades advocating for conservation, into her eighties.

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01God kills Job's ten children, 7,000 sheep, and 3,000 camels on a bet with Satan.
02The prose frame—where Job is rewarded—was likely added centuries after the original poem was written.
03At the end, God mocks Job from a whirlwind for 71 verses without answering a single question.

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01Quisling announced himself as Prime Minister on Norwegian national radio on April 9, 1940 — the same day German troops landed.
02His collaborationist government oversaw the deportation of Norway's Jewish population; 773 were killed at Auschwitz.
03He was shot at Akershus Fortress on October 24, 1945 — the very citadel he had helped deliver to the occupation.

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A typical crossbow

01Pope Innocent II's 1139 ban called the crossbow 'hateful to God and unfit for Christians.'
02Richard I of England, who loved the crossbow, died in 1199 from a crossbow bolt at Châlus-Chabrol.
03A trained crossbowman needed no years of muscle-building — a peasant could kill a knight on day one.

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01A German rifle bullet severed Inouye's arm mid-throw; he finished the throw with his other hand.
02He was denied service at a barbershop while still in uniform on his way home from the war.
03Inouye served 49 years in the U.S. Senate — the second-longest-serving senator in history at his death.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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01The forged Bank of America letter was exposed in December 2003 when the bank confirmed the account did not exist.
02Parmalat's total debt hole reached roughly €14 billion — nearly twice the GDP of some EU member states at the time.
03Founder Calisto Tanzi admitted diverting at least €500 million into family-owned businesses and was sentenced to 18 years.

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A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William 's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066

01The Bayeux Tapestry stretches 70 metres long but is only 50 centimetres tall, stitched in eight colours of dyed wool.
02It was likely made in Canterbury by English embroiderers, commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William the Conqueror's half-brother.
03A Halley's Comet appears in scene 32, depicted as an omen above figures pointing upward in visible alarm, dated to 1066.

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