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01Malala was 15 when shot on October 9, 2012; she had been named to a Taliban hit list months earlier.
02She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, at age 17, sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi.
03The Malala Fund she co-founded has invested in girls' education across twelve countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria.

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01408 civilians died — mostly women and children sheltering from airstrikes in Baghdad's Amiriyah district.
02The bunker was built by a Finnish firm to NATO specifications; the US knew its layout.
03Charred silhouettes of bodies are still visible on the interior walls, preserved as a memorial.

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Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884)

01Llywelyn drove his sword through Gelert before seeing the wolf's carcass hidden beneath the cradle.
02The village of Beddgelert, Wales, is named for the hound; a grave monument still stands there.
03The legend is likely an 18th-century tourist invention planted by an innkeeper named David Pritchard.

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01At Awazu in 1184, Tomoe Gozen decapitated enemy commander Onda no Moroshige in open battle.
02Her lover Minamoto no Yoshinaka commanded her to flee before dying, unwilling to die beside a woman.
03She appears in the Heike Monogatari described as 'a warrior worth a thousand' — then disappears entirely.

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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.

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01Miljanov's 1901 book 'Examples of Humanity and Heroism' was written after he was exiled for a political feud with Prince Nikola.
02He fought his first documented feud battle at age 16 and continued raiding until his fifties.
03He was illiterate for most of his military career; he learned to read specifically to write the book.

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A mangle being used in a domestic science course during World War II

01The rollers exerted enough pressure to strip skin and muscle from hand to wrist in one pass.
02Wringer injuries were so common that 1940s home-economics textbooks devoted a full chapter to avoidance.
03The machine remained in production until the 1970s, decades after documented mass injury records accumulated.

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01Hughes's personal aides maintained a written codeine injection schedule; the intervals were never allowed to exceed four hours.
02He acquired Air West, Summa Corporation, and multiple Las Vegas casinos during the peak years of his dependency.
03By 1970 Hughes weighed under 100 pounds; his business lawyers conducted negotiations they could not confirm he authorized.

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01The Old Norse word 'berserkr' likely means 'bear-shirt' — the warrior wore the animal's hide and its soul.
02King Harald Fairhair used berserkers as a personal shock unit at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, c. 872 AD.
03Later Norse law explicitly outlawed berserk behavior — it was treated as a crime once the state no longer needed it.

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