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Mugshot of Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno , boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1931 to 1968

01The sit-down followed the murders of Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano within four months of each other.
02Lucky Luciano established the Commission simultaneously — a national board governing all U.S. Mafia families.
03The five family names — Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese — derive from bosses who came after the founding.

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01ʻOumuamua's length-to-width ratio was estimated at 10:1 — no known natural asteroid or comet matches that shape.
02It accelerated as it left the solar system at a rate that puzzled researchers; no outgassing was observed.
03Harvard's Avi Loeb published a peer-reviewed paper in 2018 arguing a light sail was the best explanation.

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01The LHC's superconducting magnets operate at 1.9 Kelvin, colder than the cosmic microwave background.
02On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the Higgs boson's discovery to a room where Peter Higgs wept.
03Each proton beam carries the kinetic energy equivalent of a 400-tonne train at 150 km/h.

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01The 1281 invasion fleet numbered an estimated 4,400 ships — one of history's largest amphibious forces.
02Japanese defenders held the Mongols at bay for 53 days before the typhoon finished the job.
03The word 'kamikaze' was born here — then repurposed by Japanese pilots 663 years later.

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01Casartelli won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; he died in the Tour just three years later.
02He struck a concrete drainage block on the descent; the impact fractured his skull fatally.
03His Motorola teammates rode stage 16 as a memorial procession, refusing to race, letting Lance Armstrong cross alone.

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01Blaine was encased in a custom ice block in Times Square from November 27–29, 2000, for 63 hours.
02Compartment syndrome — caused by fluid pressure in immobile limbs — threatened amputation of both legs.
03He emerged hypothermic, his feet so damaged he required months of physical rehabilitation to walk normally.

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01Mexican authorities granted Witkin access to unclaimed bodies at a Oaxacan morgue beginning in the 1980s.
02He has posed severed human heads as still-life objects alongside fruit, drapery, and classical sculpture props.
03His prints sell for up to $10,000 and are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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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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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.

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