gnostek1 / 22Anti-immigrant protesters in Calais hold a sign in French reading "Diversity is a code word for white genocide", above a banner calling for remigration (8 November 2015).
01Brenton Tarrant's manifesto explicitly named South African farm murders as a radicalizing grievance before killing 51 people.
02The 'white genocide' framing was amplified by U.S. white nationalist sites beginning around 2012, long before Trump's tweet.
03South Africa's murder rate for white citizens is statistically lower per capita than for Black citizens.
gnostek1 / 5U.S. representative Michael Myers , second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents
01Congressman Michael Myers was caught on tape saying 'money talks and bullshit walks' while pocketing $50,000 in cash.
02Senator Harrison Williams was filmed agreeing to use Senate influence for a fictional titanium mine in exchange for bribery.
03The sting used a fake company, 'Abdul Enterprises,' and a fabricated sheikh persona maintained for nearly two full years.
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01Dillon's 1946 phalloplasty, performed by Sir Harold Gillies, was the first such procedure recorded in medical history.
02After his trans identity was exposed in the British press in 1958, Dillon fled to India within weeks.
03He died in a Tibetan monastery in 1962, having taken the monastic name Jivaka — a classical Buddhist physician-saint.
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01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.
gnostek1 / 11The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .
01United Fruit owned Guatemala's only railroad, its telegraph lines, and its Caribbean port.
02In 1954, the CIA overthrew President Árbenz after he tried to redistribute 234,000 acres of UFC land.
03O. Henry coined 'banana republic' in 1904 while hiding in Honduras to escape embezzlement charges.
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01Frederick's army lost 19,000 men — nearly half his force — in roughly six hours on August 12, 1759.
02Frederick wrote that night: 'I will not survive the ruin of my country' and signed over command.
03Russia and Austria failed to advance after the victory — the 'Miracle of the House of Brandenburg' saved Prussia.
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01Batts's real name was William Bentvena; he was a made Gambino soldier, meaning his murder required Commission-level retribution.
02Henry Hill later testified the body was exhumed and moved to a second site in Pennsylvania after police searched the first.
03The shoe-shine insult was real — DeSimone had actually shined shoes as a teenager, making it a deliberate humiliation.
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01Theia is estimated to have been roughly the size of Mars — about half Earth's diameter.
02The impact was so energetic it likely vaporized Earth's entire surface and re-melted the mantle.
03Lunar rock isotopes match Earth's mantle so precisely they're nearly indistinguishable — Theia became us.