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01The fire ladder was missing from its hook the night of the fire; the phone line had been cut.
02A private investigator sent the family a photograph in 1967 of a young man he claimed was Louis Sodder — no follow-up ever confirmed it.
03Human bodies, even cremated, leave 3–9 lbs of bone fragments; the Sodder ash contained none from five children.

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01The Hoxne Hoard contained 14,865 gold and silver coins, 200 gold and silver objects, and weighed nearly 8 kg total.
02A gold body-chain belonging to 'Juliane' — her name stamped in the clasp — was among the jewelry; she buried it around AD 407.
03Lawes received a full market-value reward of £1.75 million, split with the landowner; he donated part to the local church.

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01Rai stones can measure up to 3.6 meters across and weigh over 4 metric tons.
02One stone sank to the sea floor in transit; the family retained full ownership — everyone knew.
03Economists compare Yap's oral ledger to the gold France claimed from the US Federal Reserve in 1932 without moving it.

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01Gallium's melting point is 29.8 °C; it liquefies sitting in a warm hand.
02A few grams of gallium smeared on an aluminium beam will cause structural failure within hours.
03Gallium is banned from commercial aircraft cabins by FAA regulation for exactly this reason.

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3D illustration of Gabriel's horn

01The horn's volume is exactly π cubic units — a clean, finite number.
02Its surface area is infinite, calculated by the same integral that gives the volume.
03Evangelista Torricelli discovered the paradox around 1643, calling it a 'mystical' geometric object.

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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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01The descent drops at gradients exceeding 10%; the fatal corner offers no runoff and no barrier.
02A basalt stone memorial bearing Casartelli's relief portrait stands at the exact crash point on the col.
03Dante Rezze, a Swiss amateur, died on the same descent during the 1935 Tour de France.

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01The coronation consumed $22 million, roughly one-third of the entire country's GDP for that year.
02Bokassa personally beat schoolchildren with a cane during the 1979 Bangui massacre that finally ended French support.
03After exile and return, a Central African court sentenced him to death — then commuted it; he died free in Paris, 1996.

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01Army surgeons used Tarrare as a spy courier, hiding dispatches inside raw meat he swallowed whole.
02A 14-month-old infant disappeared from the hospital ward where Tarrare was confined; he was the prime suspect.
03His autopsy revealed a massively distended stomach, corroded organs, and a body riddled with tumors at death around age 26.

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