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01His killer couldn't grip the head by hair — Galba was bald — so carried it by the thumb jammed in the mouth.
02Three other emperors followed within the same calendar year of 69 CE: Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.
03He was 70 years old at accession — the oldest man to claim the imperial throne to that point.

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01Spinoza's 1656 cherem writ listed 'monstrous deeds' as the cause — no deed was ever named or recorded.
02He argued Moses did not write the Torah and that Scripture was compiled by Ezra centuries after the events.
03The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, his biblical critique, was placed on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books in 1679.

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01Spencer's DNA conviction in 1994 was the first execution in U.S. history based solely on genetic evidence.
02His DNA simultaneously exonerated David Vasquez, who had falsely confessed and served five years for one murder.
03Spencer killed four women in the Richmond area between 1987 and 1988; he was called 'The Southside Strangler.'

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01Velites were Rome's light infantry drawn exclusively from its poorest citizen class.
02Each Velite carried seven 90cm javelins into battle, hurling them before retreating through the ranks.
03The wolf skull headdress served a tactical purpose: commanders used it to track skirmisher positions mid-battle.

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Fengdu Ghost City

01The Darvaza crater is approximately 70 metres wide and 30 metres deep, still burning since 1971.
02Turkmenistan's president ordered it extinguished in 2022, citing lost national revenue — the fire ignored the decree.
03Temperatures at the crater rim reach high enough that the surrounding sand vitrifies into glass.

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01Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000–100,000 Kurds with chemical weapons.
02He personally signed the document declaring Kuwait Iraq's 19th province in August 1990.
03Convicted and sentenced to death four separate times before his 2010 execution by hanging.

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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"

01China produced 25 U.S. POW confessions to biological warfare; all 25 airmen recanted upon repatriation in 1953.
02A 1952 International Scientific Commission, led by British scientist Joseph Needham, concluded the allegations were credible.
03Declassified Soviet documents suggest the confessions were coerced; no independent physical evidence has ever been verified.

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01Supreme's 2012 New Hampshire primary campaign included a glitter-bomb thrown at rival candidate Randall Terry during a public forum.
02He polled 833 votes in the 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary, beating two candidates who spent real campaign money.
03His pony platform doubles as an economic policy: ponies as personal transportation to reduce fossil fuel dependence.

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