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01Didius Julianus outbid rival Sulpicianus at the Praetorian camp gate in a literal shouted auction.
02The Guard murdered at least a dozen emperors over three centuries of Roman history.
03Septimius Severus disbanded the Guard after 193 CE, then quietly rebuilt it larger under his own loyalists.

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01Davis documented that no white man was convicted of raping an enslaved Black woman under American law before emancipation.
02She argued the myth of the Black male rapist was constructed precisely to displace attention from white male rape of Black women.
03Davis was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1970, two years before the book's core arguments were published.

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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.

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01Bertelsmann suppressed its own commissioned 1998 history after it misrepresented the company's wartime role.
02An independent commission found the company profited from the forced labor of Jewish prisoners during WWII.
03Today Bertelsmann owns Penguin Random House, RTL Group, and BMG — reaching billions of readers and viewers.

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Kanuni i Lek Dukagjinit

01The Kanun stipulates that a murdered man's blood must be repaid with blood — no cash settlement is valid.
02It grants full sanctuary to anyone inside a host's house; killing a guest inverts the feud obligation onto the host's killer.
03Albanian courts in the 1990s recorded defendants invoking Kanun as a legal defense for homicide.

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01Carthage's inner wall, the Byrsa circuit, reportedly housed 300 elephant stalls and barracks for 20,000 infantry within its structure.
02After the Third Punic War in 146 BCE, Rome demolished every course of the walls and salted the surrounding ground.
03The destruction was so thorough that the precise line of Carthage's outer wall remains disputed among archaeologists today.

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1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.

01The Thor, launched in 1908 by Hurley Machine Company, had no electrical insulation on its motor housing.
02Alva Fisher's patent drawings show live copper contacts positioned inches above the water basin.
03Early electric washing machine electrocutions were recorded in Chicago within the first year of Thor's sale.

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01Custer refused a Gatling gun battery before the march, fearing it would slow him down.
02His column of 210 men was wiped out in under an hour on June 25, 1876.
03Sitting Bull had predicted the exact outcome in a Sun Dance vision days before the battle.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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