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Tyr and Fenrir (1911) by John Bauer

01Tyr's hand was the ransom paid to bind Fenrir with a ribbon made from six impossible things.
02The six materials included the sound of a cat's footstep, the beard of a woman, and the roots of a mountain.
03Tyr will fight and kill the dog Garm at Ragnarök, then die of the wounds — a second sacrifice.

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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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01Gnarr refused to form a coalition with any party whose members had not watched all five seasons of The Wire.
02He delivered a mayoral inaugural address in drag, dressed as a character from the film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
03Despite the comedy origin, Gnarr's administration balanced the city budget and improved public transit through his four-year term.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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01The burning saint's card ritual was secretly recorded by the FBI during a 1989 Patriarca family ceremony in Medford, Massachusetts.
02Membership is exclusively blood-Italian; the rule held so strictly that the Commission debated it formally in 1956.
03A made man cannot be killed without prior Commission approval — the rule Genovese broke by ordering Anastasia's murder.

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01Chestnut consumed 76 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in exactly 10 minutes in 2023.
02A protestor rushed the stage and tackled him mid-competition; Chestnut subdued them without stopping eating.
03He has won Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 16 times — more than any other competitor in history.

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01Acker's 'Great Expectations' (1982) plagiarized Dickens, Proust, and Harold Robbins in a single text without quotation marks.
02She had breast implants removed on camera in the 1990s and wrote about it as a theory of bodily authorship.
03Her novel 'Blood and Guts in High School' was banned in West Germany for explicit illustrations she drew herself.

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01Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro recruited 21 female students to transform a condemned LA house in 1972.
02One room, 'Nurturant Kitchen,' covered every surface in fried-egg breast sculptures by Faith Wilding.
03The mansion was slated for demolition; it was exhibited for one month before the bulldozers came.

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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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