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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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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01At 18 days, the duck embryo has cartilage, a beak, and partially formed wings visible when cracked open.
02Balut is sold from street carts in Manila after dark, marketed as an aphrodisiac for around 15–20 Philippine pesos.
03Vietnamese balut (hot vit lon) is typically incubated longer — up to 21 days — producing a more developed fetus.

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01Holt's body was never found despite one of Australia's largest naval search operations covering 10 square miles of coastline.
02A 1983 biography floated the theory that a Chinese submarine extracted Holt, who was allegedly a spy — taken seriously enough to be officially denied.
03Australia named a swimming center the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in his honor.

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01Preciado self-administered testosterone for 236 consecutive days while writing 'Testo Junkie' in 2008.
02He named his framework 'pharmacopornography' — the regime of pills and porn governing 21st-century desire.
03Preciado's transition began publicly at age 40, after decades as a female-presenting academic philosopher.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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01He crashed at full sprint into a Coca-Cola barrier on the Champs-Élysées in the 1991 Tour's final stage.
02Officials classified him as a finisher despite the crash, preserving his points-jersey lead on a technicality.
03Nicknamed 'The Tashkent Terror,' Abdoujaparov was infamous for dangerous sprinting long before Paris.

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01Pyrrhus won every major battle against Rome but bled out his army doing it — coining 'Pyrrhic victory.'
02An old woman in Argos threw a roof tile that stunned him; a soldier then cut off his head.
03He survived wars, sieges, and elephants, only to be downed in street-fighting by a civilian.

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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.

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