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01Van de Velde's ball struck the grandstand rail, his own leg, and landed in deep rough — all on one shot.
02He stood in the water considering playing the submerged ball before finally taking a penalty drop.
03Paul Lawrie won the playoff at 6-over; Van de Velde had started the 18th at 6-under.

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01Army surgeons used Tarrare as a spy courier, hiding dispatches inside raw meat he swallowed whole.
02A 14-month-old infant disappeared from the hospital ward where Tarrare was confined; he was the prime suspect.
03His autopsy revealed a massively distended stomach, corroded organs, and a body riddled with tumors at death around age 26.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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01The paintings date to at least 36,000 BCE, making them among the oldest figurative art on Earth.
02Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola's daughter María, age 8, first spotted the ceiling bison in 1879.
03The cave was declared a hoax by the scientific establishment for over 20 years before vindication came in 1902.

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01El Cid died in 1099 but his armored corpse, tied to Babieca, led the final charge at Valencia.
02He fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, switching sides twice without losing his legend.
03His nickname 'El Cid' comes from Arabic 'al-sayyid' — meaning 'the lord' — given by his enemies.

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01A three-month-old infant was stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake at a 1994 Quebec site.
02Fires ignited simultaneously in chalets in Cheiry and Salvan, Switzerland, and Morin-Heights, Quebec, on October 4–5, 1994.
03A final wave in 1997 killed 5 more in Quebec; the youngest was 16, the oldest 69.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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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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Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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