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01Owner Bill Veeck hid Gaedel inside a papier-mâché birthday cake before wheeling him onto the field.
02The American League president voided Gaedel's contract the very next morning.
03Gaedel's strike zone was measured at 1.5 inches; pitcher Bob Cain laughed so hard he could barely throw.

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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

01Cacareco's 100,000 votes made her the single highest vote-getter in the entire 1959 São Paulo council election.
02The rhino's name means 'rubbish' or 'worthless thing' in Brazilian Portuguese — the voters knew exactly what they were saying.
03Brazilian authorities annulled her votes, but the protest sparked international coverage of São Paulo's municipal disillusionment.

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01The Gauls held Rome for seven months; the ransom was 1,000 pounds of gold before Brennus added his sword.
02'Vae victis' — woe to the conquered — became the phrase Rome never forgot and never forgave.
03Rome's humiliation was so total that they later invented a legend where Camillus rode in to stop the payment.

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01Quinn's pager pinged 14 times the night he vanished — all from a single unidentified number.
02The live puppy found in Quinn's car had no known owner and was never traced to any source.
03Owens confessed in 2017 to killing Quinn; he had already been in prison for an unrelated cannibalism case.

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01Gein crafted a full 'woman suit' from skin to wear while dancing under the moonlight.
02Police found ten skulls — some sawn open, some used as bowls — at his farmhouse in 1957.
03He killed only two confirmed people; his most disturbing trophies came from exhumed graves.

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01The $25 billion 1989 buyout held the record as the largest LBO for 17 years.
02CEO Ross Johnson proposed the buyout himself, expecting to walk away with a $100 million golden parachute.
03The deal inspired 'Barbarians at the Gate,' which sold over a million copies and became an HBO film.

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A carpet beater

01Carpet beaters were beaten against rugs suspended on clotheslines, releasing clouds of dust into the beater's face.
02Hubert Cecil Booth's 1901 vacuum cleaner patent directly targeted the carpet beater's entire market.
03By 1930, carpet beater production in Britain had fallen by over 90% from its 1895 peak.

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01Brownmiller's 1975 formulation made all men structural beneficiaries of rape, not only perpetrators.
02She spent five years researching 'Against Our Will,' including reviewing military rape records from World War II and Bangladesh.
03Brownmiller was a founding member of Women Against Pornography, connecting rape theory directly to media production.

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01Timur's campaigns may have killed 17 million people, an estimated 5% of the global population.
02He ordered 90,000 skulls stacked into towers outside Delhi after its sack in 1398.
03Timur was born lame — 'Timur the Lame' became Tamerlane — and never lost a single battle.

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