Amiriyah shelter bombing — gnostek

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01408 civilians died — mostly women and children sheltering from airstrikes in Baghdad's Amiriyah district.
02The bunker was built by a Finnish firm to NATO specifications; the US knew its layout.
03Charred silhouettes of bodies are still visible on the interior walls, preserved as a memorial.

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01High-speed cameras confirmed the BB was split at its equator; the cut was geometrically centered.
02At 200 mph, the pellet crosses sword range in under 0.004 seconds — faster than human reaction time.
03Neurologists studying Machii concluded he anticipates projectile paths using pre-motor spatial mapping, not reflexes.

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01Skanderbeg won 25 consecutive battles against the Ottomans between 1443 and his death in 1468.
02He was taken from his Christian family at age nine to serve as an elite Ottoman soldier.
03Pope Calixtus III called him 'Champion of Christendom'; his helmet and sword survive in Vienna today.

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Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs initially blamed pigeon droppings in the antenna for the noise.
02The CMB temperature is 2.725 Kelvin — just 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, uniform to 1 part in 100,000.
03Its discovery in 1965 killed the Steady State model of the universe and confirmed the Big Bang.

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01Gravano's testimony in 1992 sent Gotti to life in prison after three prior acquittals the press called 'The Teflon Don.'
02After witness protection, he relocated to Arizona and built an ecstasy network moving 25,000–30,000 pills weekly through suburban Phoenix.
03He admitted killing 19 people, including his own brother-in-law Nicholas Scibetta — a detail he omitted in early testimony.

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01Bosco beat two human candidates in Sunol's 1981 election and served as honorary mayor for 13 years.
02A statue of Bosco was erected in Sunol after his death in 1994, commemorating his service to the 900-person town.
03Chinese state media once used Bosco's election as anti-democracy propaganda, arguing it proved American elections were meaningless.

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01Tiryns's walls reach 17 metres thick — enough to tunnel entire corbelled galleries through the interior.
02The limestone blocks weigh up to 15 tonnes each; no Bronze Age tool marks explain how they were moved.
03Homer described Tiryns as 'wall-girt'; later Greeks believed only giants could have raised the circuit.

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01Ocaña's lead of over 9 minutes on Merckx was the largest in Tour history when he crashed out.
02The crash on the Col de Mente triggered a pileup; Merckx himself rode into the fallen Ocaña.
03Merckx declined to pull on the yellow jersey the following morning in an unscripted act of mourning.

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01Beloki's femur, wrist, and elbow all fractured in a 2003 crash partly triggered by a race vehicle.
02Armstrong famously cut across a field to avoid the same crash — an improvised off-road detour mid-stage.
03Tour motorcycles carry cameras, doctors, and sponsors, yet have no mandatory speed floor or collision protocol.

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