gnostek1 / 5The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .
01The signal peaked at intensity 30 times above background noise at 1420 MHz — the hydrogen frequency.
02Big Ear was demolished in 1997; no other telescope was pointed at that sky position during the burst.
03A 2016 study proposed a pair of passing comets (266P/Christensen) as the source — most astronomers remain unconvinced.
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01Ma Anand Sheela personally coordinated the salmonella operation from the Rajneeshpuram compound in Wasco County, Oregon.
02751 people were sickened across 10 restaurants; it remains the largest bioterrorism attack in U.S. history.
03The goal was to incapacitate local voters so Rajneeshee candidates would win county commissioner seats.
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01Port Authority police boarded the departing Air France flight and removed Strauss-Kahn from seat number 1A, first class.
02Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old Guinea-born housekeeper, described the assault in a civil suit that settled for an undisclosed sum.
03French polls showed Strauss-Kahn leading Nicolas Sarkozy by 10 points in presidential projections the week of his arrest.
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01Edison Manufacturing Company filmed Topsy's electrocution; the film, 'Electrocuting an Elephant,' was commercially distributed that same year.
02Topsy killed three men in three years, including an abusive trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.
03She was given cyanide-laced carrots, then 6,600 volts — organizers had originally planned to hang her publicly.
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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.
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01Tiryns's walls reach 17 metres thick — enough to tunnel entire corbelled galleries through the interior.
02The limestone blocks weigh up to 15 tonnes each; no Bronze Age tool marks explain how they were moved.
03Homer described Tiryns as 'wall-girt'; later Greeks believed only giants could have raised the circuit.
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01Halsted's colleagues at Johns Hopkins were never told he was a morphine addict for the last 34 years of his career.
02He began injecting cocaine in 1884 while experimenting with it as the first surgical anesthetic on human patients.
03William Welch, Halsted's closest friend and co-founder of Hopkins, recorded the secret in a private memo buried for decades.
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01GoldenEye 007 sold over 8 million copies, making it the third best-selling N64 game of all time.
02The game's multiplayer was added in the final six weeks of development by a single programmer, Steve Ellis.
03Its analog stick aiming system established the twin-stick control standard that every console shooter still uses today.
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01Thirty pieces of silver — the price paid — was roughly a month's wages for a laborer in Roman Judea.
02The Gospels cannot agree on how Judas died: Matthew says he hanged himself; Acts says his bowels burst open in a field.
03Dante placed Judas in the ninth and deepest circle of Hell, frozen in Satan's mouth alongside Brutus and Cassius.