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The ruins of ancient Theban citadel of Cadmea

01Philip II reportedly wept at Chaeronea, saying no one who thought these men did anything shameful deserved to live.
02The Band was founded by general Gorgidas around 378 BC on the theory lovers fight harder to avoid cowardice before each other.
03Archaeologists found 254 skeletons in seven rows at Chaeronea beneath the stone lion that marked their grave.

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01Utahraptor was described and named in 1993, the same year Jurassic Park released — the timing was pure accident.
02Its sickle claw alone measured 9 inches; Velociraptor's equivalent claw was under 3 inches.
03A block of Utah sandstone may contain a mass grave of Utahraptors entombed together in quicksand-like mud.

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Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs initially blamed pigeon droppings in the antenna for the noise.
02The CMB temperature is 2.725 Kelvin — just 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, uniform to 1 part in 100,000.
03Its discovery in 1965 killed the Steady State model of the universe and confirmed the Big Bang.

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01Vlad impaled 20,000 Ottoman soldiers on stakes outside Târgoviște in 1462.
02Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, retreated after seeing the forest of bodies.
03Vlad was imprisoned twice by Christian allies who feared him more than the Ottomans did.

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A barrel-type butter churn

01Producing one pound of butter required approximately 40 minutes of continuous up-and-down plunging by hand.
02Children were routinely assigned churning duty in American farm households through the early 20th century.
03The dash churn, a vertical tube with a plunging rod, was the dominant design from 1700 to 1900.

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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.

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01Cronje initially denied all charges; he confessed only after Indian police played him recordings of his own phone calls.
02One payment was a leather jacket plus $10,000–$15,000 cash to influence a limited-overs match against India in 2000.
03He was banned for life in October 2000 and died in a cargo plane crash in June 2002, aged 32.

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0193,000 Pakistani POWs were held in 52 camps across India from December 1971 to 1973.
02Pakistan refused to acknowledge its soldiers as prisoners of war for months, complicating repatriation talks.
03India threatened war crimes trials for 195 officers before Bangladesh ultimately dropped the demand.

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01Port Authority police boarded the departing Air France flight and removed Strauss-Kahn from seat number 1A, first class.
02Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old Guinea-born housekeeper, described the assault in a civil suit that settled for an undisclosed sum.
03French polls showed Strauss-Kahn leading Nicolas Sarkozy by 10 points in presidential projections the week of his arrest.

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