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01The PDP-1 cost $120,000 in 1961; the students had no official authorization to monopolize it nightly.
02Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, and Steve Russell coded it across several months of stolen lab time.
03Its source code was the first program freely shared between institutions, predating open-source by decades.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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Gasoline in a glass jar

01Midgley himself contracted lead poisoning in 1923 while demonstrating tetraethyl lead's safety to reporters.
02Blood lead levels in children fell 78% within a decade of the US leaded-gas phaseout in 1986.
03Midgley died in 1944 strangled by a pulley-and-rope device he invented to lift himself out of bed.

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01GW170817 produced an estimated 3–13 Earth masses of pure gold in under two seconds.
02The kilonova was spotted 130 million light-years away in galaxy NGC 4993 on August 17, 2017.
03R-process nucleosynthesis — the only mechanism for forging heavy metals — requires neutron star merger density.

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01His forces captured the True Cross from Jerusalem in 614 AD and carried it to the Persian capital.
02He assassinated Khosrow II, the emperor who had commanded him, and seized the Sasanian throne.
03His reign lasted precisely 40 days — ended by assassination — making him Persia's shortest-ruling usurper.

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01Nixon gave no advance notice to the IMF, the G10, or allied finance ministers before the August 15, 1971 broadcast.
02The U.S. held only $10 billion in gold reserves against $80 billion in foreign-held dollar claims at the time.
03The 'temporary' 10% import surcharge Nixon imposed that night was never formally repealed under its original authority.

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Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

01Kuru, spread by endocannibalism among the Fore people, killed an estimated 1,100 people between 1957 and 2004.
02Women and children ate the brain and organs; men ate muscle — explaining why women died at far higher rates.
03Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek identified kuru's prion cause in 1976 after living with the Fore for years.

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01Cridland has had medical nerve-conduction studies confirm genuine absence of pain response, not performance.
02He passes rods through his throat without hitting the trachea or carotid by long practice of anatomy.
03He performs under the name Zamora the Torture King and has toured since the 1980s.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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