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01Ergotamine, derived from the same fungus, was the direct chemical precursor to LSD, synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938.
02In the Pont-Saint-Esprit outbreak of 1951, at least 7 people died and 50 were committed to asylums.
03Gangrenous ergotism caused limbs to turn black and drop off — medieval sufferers called it 'St. Anthony's Fire.'

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01His Cyrus Cylinder, 539 BC, is the oldest known declaration of religious and ethnic tolerance by a ruler.
02Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae allegedly beheaded Cyrus and submerged his head in a skin of blood.
03He freed the Babylonian Jewish exile — ~40,000 people — and funded the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple.

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01Johnson's urine sample tested positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid; his world record of 9.79 was formally struck.
02His eyes were jaundiced yellow at the finish line — visible in broadcast footage, a physiological sign of steroid use.
03Of the eight finalists in that 100m race, six have since been linked to doping violations or investigations.

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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.

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01Comandos used the hostage-takers' daily indoor football game as the acoustic cover to blast through the floor.
02One of two Peruvian soldiers killed was shot by President Fujimori's bodyguard in a friendly-fire incident.
03The tunnels ran 170 meters and were dug over four months without the MRTA noticing the vibrations.

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01The Gauls held Rome for seven months; the ransom was 1,000 pounds of gold before Brennus added his sword.
02'Vae victis' — woe to the conquered — became the phrase Rome never forgot and never forgave.
03Rome's humiliation was so total that they later invented a legend where Camillus rode in to stop the payment.

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A fortified tower ( kullë ) used as a safe haven for men involved in a blood feud. Theth , northern Albania.

01Entire male family lines are confined indoors; children miss school for years, fearing lawful execution outside.
02By 2008, an estimated 1,500 Albanian families were living in self-imposed lockdown due to active blood feuds.
03The feud obligation passes to sons if fathers die — a debt that compounds across generations.

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01The repository was designed to warn off humans for 10,000 years using non-linguistic symbols.
02Obama's DOE withdrew the license application in 2010, stranding $15 billion of completed work.
03High-level waste currently sits in temporary pools at 75 reactor sites across 33 U.S. states.

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01Luciano was deported after serving only 10 of a 30–50 year sentence, rewarded for wartime naval intelligence cooperation.
02From Naples, he coordinated the Sicilian heroin pipeline that flooded American cities through the 1950s.
03He died of a heart attack at Naples Airport in 1962, allegedly while meeting a film producer about his life story.

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