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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.

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Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s

01The U.S. natural ice industry harvested over 25 million tons annually from lakes by 1880.
02Ice was cut in winter, packed in sawdust, and stored in insulated warehouses until summer delivery.
03A failed ice delivery on a hot day could spoil a family's entire weekly food supply by evening.

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01Diocletian is the only Roman emperor to voluntarily and permanently abdicate while in full power.
02When colleagues begged him to retake power, he replied that if they'd seen his cabbages, they wouldn't ask.
03His palace at Split, Croatia, was so massive that a medieval city grew up inside its walls.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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01Soros shorted £10 billion in a single day, forcing Britain to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
02The UK Treasury spent an estimated $27 billion in reserves trying to defend the pound — and failed within hours.
03Black Wednesday cost British taxpayers roughly £3.4 billion; Soros personally cleared over $1 billion by market close.

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01The id team rented office space in a Mesquite, Texas strip mall directly above a little Caesar's pizza.
02Carmack's BSP rendering engine was so fast the team's benchmark software could not time it accurately.
03Doom was installed on more PCs than Windows 95 within its first year, according to Bill Gates's own team.

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01His forces captured the True Cross from Jerusalem in 614 AD and carried it to the Persian capital.
02He assassinated Khosrow II, the emperor who had commanded him, and seized the Sasanian throne.
03His reign lasted precisely 40 days — ended by assassination — making him Persia's shortest-ruling usurper.

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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01The fix was orchestrated by Arnold Rothstein, a New York gambler who bankrolled $80,000 to throw the series.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and drove in six runs during the 'thrown' Series, yet was banned alongside the conspirators.
03All eight players were acquitted at trial in 1921 but were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Landis the next day.

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