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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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01The dik-dik's preorbital gland sits so close to the eye that marking a twig looks like self-blinding.
02Mated pairs are monogamous for life; the male shadow-follows the female within two body-lengths at all times.
03When alarmed, dik-diks produce a sharp 'dik-dik' nasal whistle that named the entire species.

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01Caesar's own account, the Commentarii, records 1 million dead and 1 million enslaved across eight years of war.
02The siege of Uxellodunum ended with Caesar ordering both hands cut off every surviving defender.
03Plutarch estimated that 800 towns were sacked and 300 tribes subdued during the campaign.

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01The Hoxne Hoard contained 14,865 gold and silver coins, 200 gold and silver objects, and weighed nearly 8 kg total.
02A gold body-chain belonging to 'Juliane' — her name stamped in the clasp — was among the jewelry; she buried it around AD 407.
03Lawes received a full market-value reward of £1.75 million, split with the landowner; he donated part to the local church.

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01Powell's February 5, 2003 presentation included a small vial he waved to illustrate anthrax quantities — it was theater.
02The Downing Street Memo, written months earlier, had already confirmed intelligence was being 'fixed around the policy.'
03Powell spent five years writing his memoirs partly to document how CIA chief George Tenet personally vouched for the data.

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01Attacker Shane Stant struck Kerrigan's knee with a collapsible baton on January 6, 1994, then fled through a plexiglass door.
02The hit cost $6,500; Gillooly later sold his story to a tabloid for a reported $50,000.
03Harding was banned for life from U.S. figure skating but was never formally banned from the 1994 Lillehammer Games.

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01The 1281 invasion fleet numbered an estimated 4,400 ships — one of history's largest amphibious forces.
02Japanese defenders held the Mongols at bay for 53 days before the typhoon finished the job.
03The word 'kamikaze' was born here — then repurposed by Japanese pilots 663 years later.

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Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs initially blamed pigeon droppings in the antenna for the noise.
02The CMB temperature is 2.725 Kelvin — just 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, uniform to 1 part in 100,000.
03Its discovery in 1965 killed the Steady State model of the universe and confirmed the Big Bang.

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Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems

01Bismarck edited the Ems Dispatch over dinner, then released it to newspapers the same evening.
02France declared war on Prussia within five days of the doctored text appearing in print.
03The resulting Franco-Prussian War ended with Germany's proclamation as a unified empire at Versailles.

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