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01The Scipionyx specimen, nicknamed Ciro, was found by an amateur in southern Italy in 1981.
02Its liver is preserved well enough to suggest dinosaurs had a reptile-style liver, not a bird-style one.
03The fossil is roughly the size of a sparrow — yet contains more biological data than most adult specimens.

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01Sputnik 2 had no re-entry mechanism; Laika was always going to die — the lie was about when.
02Her body orbited Earth 2,570 times before the craft burned up in April 1958.
03One of her mission engineers, Oleg Gazenko, publicly apologized for her death decades later.

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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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A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

01The term 'long pig' originates from Polynesian and Melanesian cannibalistic practice, not European invention.
02Missionary accounts from Fiji in the 1840s record the phrase being used matter-of-factly by islanders.
03The smell comparison is attributed to survivors and perpetrators alike, across geographically unconnected cultures.

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01Lorz was photographed accepting a laurel wreath from Alice Roosevelt before the fraud was discovered.
02He was initially disqualified for life, then reinstated within months and won the 1905 Boston Marathon legitimately.
03The actual 1904 Olympic marathon winner, Thomas Hicks, was fed strychnine and brandy mid-race by his handlers.

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01Bokassa personally beat 100 schoolchildren in April 1979; at least 40 died in custody that week.
02He kept crocodiles and lions at his Berengo palace estate, which received confirmed human remains.
03A French war-crimes tribunal sentenced him to death in 1987; the sentence was later commuted to life.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01NYPD detective Joseph Petrosino was shot dead in Piazza Marina, Palermo, on March 12, 1909.
02Cascio Ferro claimed personal credit for Petrosino's murder, allegedly boasting about it late in life.
03He is believed to be a primary model for Mario Puzo's Vito Corleone, the Godfather patriarch himself.

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01After the beheadings, the 10,000 Greek survivors elected new leaders overnight and marched 1,500 miles home.
02Xenophon, an amateur with no command, stepped up and wrote the entire story himself in the Anabasis.
03Tissaphernes was later executed by his own Persian king — beheaded on orders from Artaxerxes II.

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