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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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01ʻOumuamua's length-to-width ratio was estimated at 10:1 — no known natural asteroid or comet matches that shape.
02It accelerated as it left the solar system at a rate that puzzled researchers; no outgassing was observed.
03Harvard's Avi Loeb published a peer-reviewed paper in 2018 arguing a light sail was the best explanation.

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01Gnarr refused to form a coalition with any party whose members had not watched all five seasons of The Wire.
02He delivered a mayoral inaugural address in drag, dressed as a character from the film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
03Despite the comedy origin, Gnarr's administration balanced the city budget and improved public transit through his four-year term.

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01Empress Fu was dragged past Emperor Xian in the corridor to her execution; he could not intervene.
02Cao Cao forced Xian to marry his own daughter after murdering Empress Fu, consolidating control through the bedchamber.
03Emperor Xian outlived the Han dynasty by fourteen years, dying peacefully in 234 CE as a feudal prince.

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01The PDP-1 cost $120,000 in 1961; the students had no official authorization to monopolize it nightly.
02Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, and Steve Russell coded it across several months of stolen lab time.
03Its source code was the first program freely shared between institutions, predating open-source by decades.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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01Any Roman citizen who harmed a tribune was declared sacer — forfeit to the gods, killable by anyone.
02The sacrosanctity was backed by a mass plebeian oath taken at the founding of the office in 494 BC.
03Tiberius Gracchus, a sitting tribune, was clubbed to death in 133 BC by senators using furniture fragments.

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01Meditations was written in Greek, not Latin, and titled by others — Aurelius gave it no name.
02He wrote most entries on the Danube frontier during the Marcomannic Wars, between battles.
03The text contains zero political advice; it is entirely directed at disciplining himself, not others.

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01Rubin drew a literal concentric-circle diagram ranking sex acts from 'good' to 'bad' — published in an academic anthology.
02'Thinking Sex' was written during the 1984 Meese Commission panic, when the FBI was raiding adult bookstores.
03Rubin named sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and fetishism as unjustly condemned — while criticizing the condemnation, not endorsing harm.

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