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01Crassus was worth an estimated 200 million sesterces — enough to fund Rome's legions for years.
02His head was sent to the Parthian king Orodes II during a performance of Euripides' Bacchae.
03He built his fortune partly by buying burning buildings cheaply, then extinguishing them with his private fire brigade.

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01The smuggler added Bondo-brand car putty to the snout to inflate the fossil's apparent completeness and price.
02Scientists spent months chiseling out the fake material before they could study the actual bone underneath.
03Irritator challengeri's species name honors Professor Challenger, the fictional explorer from Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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01A specialized organ behind each eye generates heat, warming the retina by up to 28°C above seawater.
02Warmer retinas process light signals faster, giving swordfish a crucial reaction-speed edge over cold-blooded prey.
03Swordfish can reach 60 mph, making the heated-eye system essential for tracking fast-moving targets in dim water.

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01Serrano received a $15,000 NEA-affiliated award for 'Piss Christ' in 1987 before the controversy erupted.
02Senator Jesse Helms displayed the photograph on the Senate floor in 1989 and demanded NEA funding be stripped.
03A physical print was attacked with hammers by Catholic protesters in Avignon, France, in April 2011.

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A mangle being used in a domestic science course during World War II

01The rollers exerted enough pressure to strip skin and muscle from hand to wrist in one pass.
02Wringer injuries were so common that 1940s home-economics textbooks devoted a full chapter to avoidance.
03The machine remained in production until the 1970s, decades after documented mass injury records accumulated.

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A slab of pykrete

01Pykrete is 86% ice and 14% sawdust, yet it deflects rifle bullets without shattering.
02Project Habbakuk's planned carrier weighed 2 million tons — dwarfing every steel warship ever built.
03A small Pykrete block was demonstrated to Allied chiefs in a Quebec hotel bathtub in 1943.

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01The West Side Boys held a Royal Irish Regiment patrol of 11 soldiers; one hostage, Ranger Rowan, was released before the raid began.
02SAS and D Squadron assaulted at dawn on September 10, 2000; 25 West Side Boys were killed, one SAS soldier — Brad Tinnion — died.
03Chickens were deliberately scattered into the camp as distraction cover; the entire assault lasted under 20 minutes.

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01Acker's 'Great Expectations' (1982) plagiarized Dickens, Proust, and Harold Robbins in a single text without quotation marks.
02She had breast implants removed on camera in the 1990s and wrote about it as a theory of bodily authorship.
03Her novel 'Blood and Guts in High School' was banned in West Germany for explicit illustrations she drew herself.

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