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01Herzog cooked the shoe with garlic and duck fat before eating it in front of an audience.
02Les Blank filmed the entire meal; the resulting short, 'Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,' runs 28 minutes.
03He made the original bet to push Errol Morris to finish 'Gates of Heaven' — and Morris did.

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01Septimius Severus was born in Leptis Magna, modern Libya, becoming Rome's first African-born emperor.
02He died in Eboracum — modern York — while planning a deeper invasion of Caledonia.
03His deathbed advice to his sons: 'Enrich the soldiers; ignore everyone else.'

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01Travis weighed 200 pounds and had lived as a near-human companion — riding in cars, drinking wine, using a computer.
02Charla Nash required a full face transplant; she testified before Congress to ban private primate ownership in 2009.
03Police shot Travis four times; he retreated to his cage and died there — the 911 call is public record.

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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

01Cacareco's 100,000 votes made her the single highest vote-getter in the entire 1959 São Paulo council election.
02The rhino's name means 'rubbish' or 'worthless thing' in Brazilian Portuguese — the voters knew exactly what they were saying.
03Brazilian authorities annulled her votes, but the protest sparked international coverage of São Paulo's municipal disillusionment.

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01Army surgeons watched him eat a live cat — skin, bones, and all — in one sitting.
02Hospitalized in 1794, he was expelled after a 14-month-old infant vanished from his ward.
03His body ran so hot that physicians recorded his core temperature as permanently fever-level.

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01Doom's shareware Episode 1 was downloaded approximately 10 million times in its first two years.
02id Software's nine-person team built the engine and shipped the entire game in under 18 months.
03Doom has been ported to refrigerators, pregnancy tests, and ATMs — an unofficial benchmark for computing itself.

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Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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01Dunant witnessed 40,000 casualties and organized local women using the cry 'Tutti fratelli' — all brothers.
02His 1862 memoir 'A Memory of Solferino' directly inspired the Geneva Convention of 1864.
03Dunant won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 — and was living in a poorhouse charity ward when he got the news.

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