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01The Indians sold roughly 65,000 cups of beer to a crowd of about 25,000 — nearly 3 cups per person on paper.
02Fans began throwing cups, hot dogs, and eventually a folding chair at Texas outfielder Jeff Burroughs.
03Texas manager Billy Martin ran onto the field with a fungo bat to defend his players.

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01Mauna Kea is considered the piko — the navel — of the Hawaiian islands in indigenous cosmology.
02Protectors blockaded the access road in July 2019, halting construction for months without a single arrest initially.
03The TMT project subsequently explored La Palma in the Canary Islands as an alternative site.

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01Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis on the exact Nile bank where Antinous drowned.
02Antinous was declared a god — one of the last new deities officially recognized by Rome.
03Hadrian was the first Roman emperor to wear a full beard, reportedly to cover facial scars.

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01Rommel captured Monte Matajur with 150 men, taking 9,000 prisoners — earning the Pour le Mérite at age 29.
02Italy lost 300,000 prisoners, 10,000 dead, and 30,000 wounded in six days of fighting at Caporetto.
03The catastrophe directly inspired Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' — he drove ambulances on that front.

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The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .

01The signal peaked at intensity 30 times above background noise at 1420 MHz — the hydrogen frequency.
02Big Ear was demolished in 1997; no other telescope was pointed at that sky position during the burst.
03A 2016 study proposed a pair of passing comets (266P/Christensen) as the source — most astronomers remain unconvinced.

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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.

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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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01Muhammad's actual target was his ex-wife Mildred; the 10 random killings were designed as camouflage.
02He had trained Malvo, then a teenager, for months before the 2002 attacks began.
03Muhammad was executed at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on November 10, 2009.

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01The scroll lists roughly 65 tons of gold and silver buried across 64 locations — an implausibly large figure for the era.
02It was written in a Hebrew dialect so unusual that scholars initially couldn't agree on its translation for decades.
03Unlike every other Dead Sea Scroll, the Copper Scroll is purely a ledger — no theology, no narrative, just coordinates.

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