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01The Arabic term 'mellified man' translates literally as 'the one soaked in honey,' documented in Li Shizhen's 1596 Chinese pharmacopoeia.
02The candidate's sweat, tears, and excrement were said to turn to honey before death — the whole body crystallized.
03No physical specimen has ever been confirmed; historians debate whether the practice was myth, metaphor, or literal trade good.

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01Physio Steph Brennan made a real cut on Williams's lip with a scalpel to produce genuine blood post-capsule.
02The scheme was designed to exploit the 'blood bin' rule, allowing a specialist kicker back onto the field.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years; Brennan lost her medical registration.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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01The killers, aged 19, committed at least 21 murders and filmed several of them for personal entertainment.
02The victim, Sergei Yatzenko, was beaten with a hammer, screwdriver, and pipe over several minutes.
03The video spread globally online before investigators identified the perpetrators partly through leaked footage.

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01Ruffians can be hired to beat piñatas to death; the candy spills are the death animation.
02Certain predator species eat others whole; if the prey species reaches zero, it never returns that save file.
03The game shipped in 2006 rated E for Everyone, despite containing species extinction as a core mechanic.

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01Nicephorus II Phocas asked Patriarch Polyeuctus to declare soldiers slain in battle as Christian martyrs.
02He slept on a hair-cloth mat on the floor, refusing a bed, throughout his reign.
03His own wife and her lover Tzimisces had him murdered in his bedroom in December 969.

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01He reportedly killed the Turkic Khagan Shaba personally in single combat during the 589 AD campaign.
02Khosrow II stripped him of command after the victory; Bahram responded by seizing the Sasanian throne.
03He ruled as Bahram VI — the only non-royal usurper to hold the Sasanian crown — for about two years.

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01Eight victims were killed in four separate incidents along a 23-mile Virginia National Park Service road.
02Investigators believe the perpetrator may have impersonated a law enforcement officer to approach victims.
03As of 2024, no suspect has ever been charged; the FBI lists the Colonial Parkway murders as unsolved.

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Exterior view of the building known as Ransom Room, in Cajamarca where the Inca Atahualpa was confined.

01The ransom room measured roughly 22 feet long by 17 feet wide; gold filled it once, silver twice.
02Estimated value of Atahualpa's ransom: over $1.5 billion in today's terms — the largest ever paid.
03Pizarro's justification for execution was a fabricated charge of plotting rebellion after payment was complete.

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