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Eyguieres curse tablet

01Over 1,600 defixiones have been recovered; one found in Roman Britain names 'Docilianus son of Brucerus' by full name.
02Tablets were sometimes written in reverse script or mirror image to activate the curse's hidden logic.
03Victims cursed ranged from chariot-race rivals to unfaithful lovers to thieves who stole six silver coins.

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01Malala was 15 when shot on October 9, 2012; she had been named to a Taliban hit list months earlier.
02She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014, at age 17, sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi.
03The Malala Fund she co-founded has invested in girls' education across twelve countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria.

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01Army surgeons watched him eat a live cat — skin, bones, and all — in one sitting.
02Hospitalized in 1794, he was expelled after a 14-month-old infant vanished from his ward.
03His body ran so hot that physicians recorded his core temperature as permanently fever-level.

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01The last log entry, dated November 25, 1872, placed the ship near the Azores; she was found 400 miles off course.
02Captain Benjamin Briggs had brought his wife and two-year-old daughter aboard; all three vanished with the crew.
03Nine of the 1,701 alcohol barrels were found empty on inspection — the only anomaly in an otherwise untouched cargo.

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01The forged Bank of America letter was exposed in December 2003 when the bank confirmed the account did not exist.
02Parmalat's total debt hole reached roughly €14 billion — nearly twice the GDP of some EU member states at the time.
03Founder Calisto Tanzi admitted diverting at least €500 million into family-owned businesses and was sentenced to 18 years.

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01Drexel pleaded guilty to six felony counts in December 1988 and agreed to pay $650 million in fines.
02The firm filed for bankruptcy on February 13, 1990 — 14 months after the settlement — laying off 5,000 employees.
03At its peak Drexel controlled 45% of the entire U.S. high-yield bond market.

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The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round from the GAU-8 Avenger

01Approximately 300 tons of depleted uranium ammunition were expended by US forces during the 1991 campaign.
02DU penetrators burn on impact, scattering radioactive oxide dust inhaled by soldiers and civilians alike.
03Basra pediatric wards recorded a sharp rise in childhood leukemia and birth defects through the 1990s.

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01Foucault planned six volumes; he finished three before dying of AIDS in 1984 at age 57.
02He argued the 19th-century confession booth and the psychiatrist's couch were the same machine, producing the sexual subject.
03Volume One, published 1976, sold over a million copies — extraordinary for a book dense with Nietzsche and Bentham.

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01Golden eagle talons exert 750 psi on impact — exceeding the bite force of most large predators.
02Mongol hunters trained golden eagles to take wolves and foxes across the Central Asian steppe.
03The eagle appears on the flags or seals of over a dozen modern nation-states.

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