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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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01Bunnies were required to submit to an internal physical examination by a Playboy-approved doctor to keep their jobs.
02Steinem documented that managers routinely pocketed portions of customer tips before Bunnies received them.
03The costume's rigid corset caused documented back injuries; Bunnies were expected to maintain the 'Bunny dip' posture regardless.

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01Franklin died in 1958 at age 37 of ovarian cancer; Nobel rules bar posthumous awards, so she was never eligible.
02Watson admitted in his 1968 memoir that seeing Photo 51 was the moment the structure became clear to him.
03Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel with Watson and Crick; Franklin's name appears nowhere in the prize citation.

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01The loris activates venom by rubbing its arm gland against its mouth before biting — a two-step weapon assembly.
02Its slow movement is not timidity; it is a mimic of the venomous Asian krait snake.
03Viral 'tickling' videos show lorises raised with clipped teeth — a mutilation done to make them safe pets.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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01Melanosomes in the preserved skin allowed researchers to reconstruct a dark-backed, pale-bellied striped pattern in 2016.
02Countershading suggests Psittacosaurus lived in a forest environment with overhead light — a habitat conclusion from skin pigment alone.
03The same specimen reveals a cloaca, confirming for the first time what a non-avian dinosaur's vent actually looked like.

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01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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01Lannes lingered for nine days after amputation; Napoleon visited and wept, holding his hand.
02Napoleon had personally crossed the Danube on a single bridge that broke under artillery — trapping his army.
03Austria lost 23,000 men; France lost 22,000 — a tactical draw that ended Napoleon's aura of invincibility.

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01The PDP-1 cost $120,000 in 1961; the students had no official authorization to monopolize it nightly.
02Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, and Steve Russell coded it across several months of stolen lab time.
03Its source code was the first program freely shared between institutions, predating open-source by decades.

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