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.
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01Super Mario Galaxy's soundtrack was performed live by a full orchestra — a first for the Mario series.
02The game's smallest planets are roughly 10 feet across in scale, making Mario a giant on his own worlds.
03A second player could join solely to catch and hold stardust, a gentle cooperative role for a younger sibling.
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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.
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01František Rint bleached and arranged the bones of roughly 40,000 people between 1870 and 1872.
02The chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body — 206 types, repeated thousands of times.
03The ossuary was created after a 13th-century abbot scattered soil from Jerusalem across the cemetery, making burial there the most coveted in Bohemia.
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01Philby personally warned Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951, triggering a defection that consumed British intelligence for a decade.
02He was cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in Parliament in 1955 — an official denial that bought him eight more years.
03When he finally defected to Moscow in 1963, he had been operating for 30 years — recruited at Cambridge in the early 1930s.
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01Adrienne Mayor's 2000 book The First Fossil Hunters documented how Protoceratops nesting sites align with ancient griffin territory.
02Griffin legends specify a beaked, four-legged creature guarding gold — Protoceratops has a beak and lived near gold-bearing ore.
03Protoceratops laid eggs in spiral clutches; entire nesting colonies have been found in the Gobi, visibly eroding from dunes.
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01'Back to Back' was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2016 Grammys — the first diss track ever nominated.
02Meek Mill had alleged via Twitter that Drake used ghostwriter Quentin Miller, then released no musical response for weeks.
03Drake performed the song at the OVO Fest with a Meek Mill bobblehead onstage, institutionalizing the humiliation.
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01Hoffa controlled a Teamsters pension fund worth over $1 billion, loaned liberally to mob-connected developers.
02FBI informants named multiple suspects over decades; a New Jersey marsh was excavated in 2023 — nothing found.
03His son James P. Hoffa led the Teamsters for 22 years, the disappearance never legally resolved.
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01The ten attackers coordinated via Pakistani handlers on mobile phones throughout the siege.
02166 people were killed across 12 sites, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
03Sole surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab was hanged in Pune's Yerwada Jail on November 21, 2012.