01Howard Scott Warshaw had 5.5 weeks to code it; a normal Atari game took 6–9 months.
02Atari pressed roughly 12 million cartridges for a console with only 10 million owners.
03A 2014 dig in Alamogordo pulled 1,300 cartridges from concrete-sealed desert landfill.
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01We'wha spent six months in Washington D.C. in 1886, received by society as a dignitary and cultural ambassador.
02The Zuni lhamana role — neither man nor woman — was a recognized, honored identity across generations of Pueblo life.
03We'wha's intricate textiles were collected by the Smithsonian, where they remain as artifacts of a living tradition.
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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'
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01All 39 wore identical black Nike Decades — a detail the shoe brand quietly tried to suppress.
02At least 8 male members had voluntarily castrated themselves before the 1997 mass suicide.
03Leader Marshall Applewhite convinced followers their bodies were mere 'containers' for alien souls called 'Next Level beings.'
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01After the beheadings, the 10,000 Greek survivors elected new leaders overnight and marched 1,500 miles home.
02Xenophon, an amateur with no command, stepped up and wrote the entire story himself in the Anabasis.
03Tissaphernes was later executed by his own Persian king — beheaded on orders from Artaxerxes II.
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01Ded Gjo Luli's death poem, sung at highland funerals, specifies he was outnumbered at least ten to one.
02His name became a Kanun formula — mediators invoke him by name to shame families refusing reconciliation.
03The historical record of his life is nearly empty; the legend grew to fill the vacuum within a generation.
gnostek1 / 9Kurt Debus (front row, third from the left), a former V-2 rocket scientist and SS officer who became a NASA director, sitting between US president John F. Kennedy and US vice president Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse…
01Wernher von Braun, architect of the Saturn V moon rocket, had been an SS officer who used slave labor at Mittelwerk.
02The State Department and DOJ were deliberately kept out of early recruitment to bypass immigration law.
03Operation Paperclip files were classified until 1999; some scientists died with full U.S. military pensions.
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01A judge burned one of Schiele's drawings by candleflame in open court during his 1912 trial in Neulengbach.
02He was held for 24 days before his sentence; during confinement he made 13 drawings documenting his cell.
03Several of his young models were between 12 and 14 years old; he had sought parental permission for some sessions.
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01Travis weighed 200 pounds and had lived as a near-human companion — riding in cars, drinking wine, using a computer.
02Charla Nash required a full face transplant; she testified before Congress to ban private primate ownership in 2009.
03Police shot Travis four times; he retreated to his cage and died there — the 911 call is public record.