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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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01Each tin weighs exactly 30 grams and is labeled 'Artist's Shit, Contents 30 gr net.'
02The original gold-equivalent price in 1961 was roughly $37 per tin.
03No one has opened a tin to verify the contents; the mystery is part of the market value.

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Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

01Weimar inflation peaked at 29,500% per month in October 1923; a postage stamp cost 10 billion marks.
02The German government printed money to pay World War I reparations; by 1923, paper notes were cheaper as fuel than firewood.
03A new currency, the Rentenmark, was introduced November 15, 1923 — one Rentenmark exchanged for one trillion old marks.

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01Some Molossian dogs were deployed carrying burning pitch pots strapped to their bodies into enemy lines.
02Roman commanders used them as a first wave — charging before any human soldier moved.
03The Molossus breed is the direct ancestor of mastiffs, Rottweilers, and Saint Bernards.

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01Investigator Russell Poole named LAPD officer David Mack as a suspect before resigning in protest.
02Biggie's family sued the City of Los Angeles; a $1.1 billion lawsuit ended in mistrial due to withheld evidence.
03The LAPD suppressed evidence from its own internal investigation for years, per court filings.

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01Schneemann performed 'Interior Scroll' naked, reading aloud while unspooling paper from her vagina in front of a live audience.
02The text she read attacked what she called 'the leaky slit' — filmmakers' dismissal of her work as too bodily, too female.
03She was already 36 and a decade into her career before this 1975 performance made her internationally infamous.

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01Malala was 15 when shot on October 9, 2012; she had been named to a Taliban hit list months earlier.
02She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, at age 17, sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi.
03The Malala Fund she co-founded has invested in girls' education across twelve countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria.

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01Wilson took LSD at least a dozen times between 1956 and 1959, supplied by researchers at the Veterans Administration.
02He wrote to AA's trustees arguing that LSD could 'temporarily wipe out the ego' and accelerate the Twelfth Step.
03The AA board rejected his proposal; Wilson continued his LSD sessions privately while remaining AA's public moral authority.

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01The 442nd suffered roughly 800 casualties rescuing 211 men of the 36th Infantry's 'Lost Battalion' in October 1944.
02The Texans had been surrounded in the Vosges for a week before Japanese American soldiers broke through.
03The 442nd became the most decorated unit of its size in U.S. military history — largely from this campaign.

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