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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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01The game has no combat system, no health bar, and no way to lose — only the ocean and its creatures.
02A humpback whale named Matthew appears at a specific depth and time of in-game day, and players sought him out.
03Endless Ocean was developed by Arika, a small studio best known for Street Fighter EX — an unlikely tenderness.

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01The 'Nude Oblivion' patch was live within 24 hours of launch; it required no new geometry, only a texture swap.
02Bethesda's inclusion of the meshes forced the ESRB to re-rate Oblivion from Teen to Mature after release.
03The rating change cost retailers who had already shelved Teen-rated stock — a first in ESRB enforcement history.

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Roman public baths in Bath , England. The entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is a later reconstruction.

01The strigil was used to remove olive oil, sweat, and dirt; the scraped residue was sometimes sold as medicine.
02The Baths of Caracalla covered 25 acres and included libraries, gardens, and a concert hall alongside the pools.
03Mixed-gender bathing was common until Hadrian issued a prohibition around 137 CE — enforcement was inconsistent.

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01The explosion created a crater 170 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep on July 30, 1864.
02Generals ordered troops into the crater itself rather than around it; Confederate fire from the rim was uncontested.
03Union losses: 3,798 men in under four hours. Grant called it 'the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war.'

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01The original Xbox was bundled with Halo: Combat Evolved, selling 8 million units in its first two years.
02Bungie designed the ring's open landscapes specifically to make players feel dwarfed by alien architecture.
03The Flood parasite, introduced midgame without warning, pivoted the entire tone of the campaign in a single corridor.

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01She underwent nine cosmetic surgeries between 1990 and 1993, all filmed and transmitted to galleries worldwide.
02During operations she read aloud from Lacan, Artaud, and Kristeva — refusing general anesthesia so she could perform.
03One implant placed a bump above each eyebrow; she modeled them on a Renaissance Venus and Diana.

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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.

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01Pyrrhus won every major battle against Rome but bled out his army doing it — coining 'Pyrrhic victory.'
02An old woman in Argos threw a roof tile that stunned him; a soldier then cut off his head.
03He survived wars, sieges, and elephants, only to be downed in street-fighting by a civilian.

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