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01Weeks before the murders, Andreas Gruber reported hearing footsteps in the attic and finding an unknown newspaper on his farm.
02All six bodies — including a 2-year-old — were found in the barn, stacked under hay.
03The case was never solved; suspects were interviewed, but the last known person to examine the crime scene skulls died in WWII bombing.

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01Burden gave a single instruction: 'Shoot me.' The assistant complied from 15 feet away.
02No hospital record was filed immediately; Burden treated the wound himself that night.
03The piece, 'Shoot,' appeared in no gallery at the time — it was performed in a rented garage.

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01Maranzano modeled his five-family structure explicitly on the Roman legions, right down to the titles capo and soldier.
02Four men posing as IRS agents walked into his 230 Park Avenue office on September 10, 1931, and stabbed him six times before shooting him.
03He had already ordered the murder of Lucky Luciano scheduled for later that same week — Luciano moved first by hours.

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01In 2017, the CDC reported a newborn infected with group B strep traced directly to the mother's placenta capsules.
02Some practitioners eat placenta raw in smoothies; others sauté it with onions and garlic as a post-birth meal.
03No controlled study has confirmed placentophagy's claimed benefits for mood, milk supply, or iron levels in humans.

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Facsimile of the Einstein–Szilard letter

01Einstein later called signing the letter 'the one great mistake of my life.'
02Szilárd drafted the letter; Einstein signed it — lending the weight of his name alone.
03Roosevelt's response was to appoint a Uranium Committee within weeks of receiving it.

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A Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness

01Gas mantles contained thorium-232, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 14 billion years.
02A single crushed mantle released radioactive dust directly into the breathing air of the room.
03Thorium mantles were still legally sold in camping supply shops in the United States into the 1990s.

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01He crashed at full sprint into a Coca-Cola barrier on the Champs-Élysées in the 1991 Tour's final stage.
02Officials classified him as a finisher despite the crash, preserving his points-jersey lead on a technicality.
03Nicknamed 'The Tashkent Terror,' Abdoujaparov was infamous for dangerous sprinting long before Paris.

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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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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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