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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.

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01Soldiers stripped Landauer, beat him with rifle butts, then shot him in the Stadelheim prison yard.
02Landauer had served as Commissioner of Enlightenment in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic for just weeks.
03His friend Martin Buber collected and published his unfinished writings as an act of mourning.

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01Hostages included foreign nationals seized in earlier raids, used as shields inside an active hospital.
02Local officials were later investigated for allegedly allowing Abu Sayyaf fighters to escape the cordon.
03A Congressional inquiry found evidence that military officers may have negotiated a passage out for the gunmen.

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01Dzhumagaliev had his teeth replaced with white metal, earning him the nickname 'Metal Fang.'
02Party guests unknowingly ate kebabs made from his female victims on at least one confirmed occasion.
03He escaped a psychiatric facility in 1989 and was not recaptured for two years.

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01700 gilded spurs were stripped from dead French knights and hung in the Church of Our Lady, Kortrijk.
02The Flemish army had no cavalry — peasant infantry with iron-tipped clubs called goedendags did the killing.
03France lost the Count of Artois and over 1,000 noblemen in a single morning.

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A fortified tower ( kullë ) used as a safe haven for men involved in a blood feud. Theth , northern Albania.

01Entire male family lines are confined indoors; children miss school for years, fearing lawful execution outside.
02By 2008, an estimated 1,500 Albanian families were living in self-imposed lockdown due to active blood feuds.
03The feud obligation passes to sons if fathers die — a debt that compounds across generations.

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01Ethiopian forces numbered roughly 100,000 against Italy's 17,700 — but Italian commanders didn't know the gap.
02The four Italian columns were separated by terrain that made mutual reinforcement impossible during the March 1, 1896 battle.
03Adwa became the first decisive defeat of a European colonial army by an African nation — and it held.

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01Xolo dogs were ritually killed and buried with their owners to serve as underworld guides.
02Aztec belief held that the dog must cross nine distinct underworld rivers with the deceased.
03The breed's genetic lineage traces back over 3,500 years without significant human modification.

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01Hayashi killed 11 enemy soldiers and took out two machine-gun positions after being wounded twice in one action.
02He died of wounds shortly after the engagement — never knowing his DSC would be upgraded to a Medal of Honor.
03His Medal of Honor was awarded in 2000 as part of a congressionally mandated review of 104 Nisei WWII cases.

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