01Tyson bit off roughly 1 inch of Holyfield's right ear cartilage in round three.
02Ring official Mills Lane initially let the fight continue before stopping it 40 seconds later.
03Tyson was fined $3 million and had his boxing license revoked for 15 months.
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01Tesem hounds received individual name-stelae — engraved stone markers — inside royal Egyptian tombs.
02Amenhotep II had four Tesem dogs buried alongside him in his tomb at the Valley of the Kings.
03Pre-dynastic pottery from 4000 BCE shows Tesem dogs on leashes — among the earliest leash depictions on Earth.
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01Temperatures hit −35 °C; rifle bolts froze, morphine syrettes had to be thawed in mouths before use.
02The 1st Marine Division suffered 4,418 battle casualties and 7,338 frostbite casualties in 17 days.
03General Oliver Smith called it not a retreat but 'attacking in a different direction' — 78 miles to the coast.
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01Caesar's inner wall (contravallation) was 11 miles; his outer wall (circumvallation) was 14 miles — both built in under six weeks.
02The relief army of roughly 250,000 Gauls attacked both walls at once; Caesar personally rode to plug a breach, his red cloak used as a field signal.
03When the relief army failed, Vercingetorix surrendered 80,000 starving survivors — and the 20,000 Mandubii civilians Caesar had refused to feed died in the gap between the walls.
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01Maradona scored the Hand of God goal and the 'Goal of the Century' in the same match, six minutes apart.
02English goalkeeper Peter Shilton protested immediately; the Tunisian referee awarded the goal anyway.
03Maradona only admitted the deliberate handball publicly in his 2000 autobiography.
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01Johnson's urine sample tested positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid; his world record of 9.79 was formally struck.
02His eyes were jaundiced yellow at the finish line — visible in broadcast footage, a physiological sign of steroid use.
03Of the eight finalists in that 100m race, six have since been linked to doping violations or investigations.
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01Golden eagle talons exert 750 psi on impact — exceeding the bite force of most large predators.
02Mongol hunters trained golden eagles to take wolves and foxes across the Central Asian steppe.
03The eagle appears on the flags or seals of over a dozen modern nation-states.
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01The scroll Schneemann read contained a real letter from critic Annette Michelson mocking her as merely 'erotic.'
02She performed it at 'An Evening of Erotic Film' in New York, 1975, standing naked on a table.
03The act reframed the vagina as an archive — a place from which critical theory could be formally extracted and cited.
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01Cerberus paid $7.4 billion for Chrysler in May 2007; Chrysler filed for bankruptcy by April 2009.
02Daimler paid Cerberus $650 million to take Chrysler off its hands — a negative sale price.
03The U.S. government ultimately injected $12.5 billion to rescue the company Cerberus had just bought.