gnostek1 / 215-year-old Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ giving her testimony to the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, two months after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . It was later revealed that she was the daughter of Kuwaiti…
01Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ's identity was hidden; she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, not a random nurse.
02Hill & Knowlton received $10.8 million from the Kuwaiti government to orchestrate the testimony.
03Seven US senators cited the incubator story in floor speeches justifying the declaration of war.
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01The U.S. State Department placed a $1 million bounty on Sahiron under the Rewards for Justice program.
02Sahiron lost one arm in combat; he continues to command active operations in Sulu province.
03He has survived multiple AFP offensives, drone surveillance campaigns, and internal Abu Sayyaf leadership purges.
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01Keeler was simultaneously sleeping with Ivanov while Profumo was receiving NATO nuclear briefings — in 1961.
02Profumo lied directly to the House of Commons on March 22, 1963 — the lie itself became the career-ending act.
03After resigning, Profumo spent 40 years cleaning toilets and serving meals at Toynbee Hall charity in East London.
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01Bokassa personally beat 100 schoolchildren in April 1979; at least 40 died in custody that week.
02He kept crocodiles and lions at his Berengo palace estate, which received confirmed human remains.
03A French war-crimes tribunal sentenced him to death in 1987; the sentence was later commuted to life.
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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'
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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'
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01Sutch stood in 40 elections without a single win, from 1963 until his death in 1999 — a record unmatched in British politics.
02His Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto proposed votes at 18 and all-day pub opening hours — both later became law.
03He ran against Margaret Thatcher in her own Finchley constituency in 1983, receiving 235 votes to her 27,453.
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01The pronghorn's top speed of 55 mph is second only to the cheetah among all land animals.
02Its oversized trachea and lungs deliver oxygen at a rate far beyond what any current North American predator demands.
03The American cheetah, its evolutionary co-author, vanished with the Pleistocene megafauna around 10,000 BCE.
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01Batts's real name was William Bentvena; he was a made Gambino soldier, meaning his murder required Commission-level retribution.
02Henry Hill later testified the body was exhumed and moved to a second site in Pennsylvania after police searched the first.
03The shoe-shine insult was real — DeSimone had actually shined shoes as a teenager, making it a deliberate humiliation.