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01Boon programmed fatalities as a hidden, uncredited feature so Midway management could not veto them.
02The spine-rip fatality required capturing actor Daniel Pesina's moves frame-by-frame on video equipment.
03The Senate hearings triggered by MK directly forced Sega and Nintendo to create content ratings by 1994.

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01Merckx was punched in the kidney by a fan on Puy-de-Dôme, cracking a bone mid-climb.
02He still finished second overall in 1975, riding the final weeks in documented, measurable pain.
03That punch ended his shot at a record sixth Tour de France title — he never won again.

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01Mary weighed approximately five tons; the first execution chain broke, forcing a second attempt before a crowd.
02She killed trainer Red Eldridge on September 11, 1916 — one day into his job.
03The town of Erwin, Tennessee threatened to ban the entire Sparks World Famous Shows circus unless Mary was executed.

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01Sejanus had eliminated Tiberius's son Drusus — likely by poison — to clear his own path to power.
02His children were executed; his daughter, still a virgin, was first assaulted by the executioner because Roman law forbade killing virgins.
03After his fall, the Senate ordered every statue, inscription, and monument bearing his name destroyed — a full damnatio memoriae.

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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.

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01Leedskalnin quarried and moved 1,100 tons of coral rock solo, including a 30-ton monolith he raised without machinery.
02Neighbors who stayed up to watch him work reported seeing him sing to the stones; no tool marks were ever found.
03He built the entire structure allegedly as a monument to Agnes Scuffs, a 16-year-old Latvian girl who rejected him the day before their 1913 wedding.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01X-rays taken in 1947 confirmed the rapier passed through his liver and stomach undamaged.
02He performed the skewering publicly in Zurich, witnessed by physicians who could find no trickery.
03He died in 1948 — not from blades, but from a swallowed steel needle causing an aortic aneurysm.

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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