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01The basalt cliff beneath the village is formed from two superimposed lava flows and is roughly 200,000 years old.
02At its narrowest point, the inhabited promontory is only 50 metres wide with sheer 50-metre drops on both sides.
03The oldest houses in the village have no rear walls — the cliff face itself serves as the back of the building.

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01The 442nd suffered roughly 800 casualties rescuing 211 men of the 36th Infantry's 'Lost Battalion' in October 1944.
02The Texans had been surrounded in the Vosges for a week before Japanese American soldiers broke through.
03The 442nd became the most decorated unit of its size in U.S. military history — largely from this campaign.

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01Gallium's melting point is 29.8 °C; it liquefies sitting in a warm hand.
02A few grams of gallium smeared on an aluminium beam will cause structural failure within hours.
03Gallium is banned from commercial aircraft cabins by FAA regulation for exactly this reason.

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Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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A carpet beater

01Carpet beaters were beaten against rugs suspended on clotheslines, releasing clouds of dust into the beater's face.
02Hubert Cecil Booth's 1901 vacuum cleaner patent directly targeted the carpet beater's entire market.
03By 1930, carpet beater production in Britain had fallen by over 90% from its 1895 peak.

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01The Black Mesa Research Facility was designed as a structurally plausible underground complex spanning multiple biomes.
02Half-Life won over 50 'Game of the Year' awards in 1998, more than any title before it.
03Valve's follow-up Half-Life 2 in 2004 shipped with the Source engine, revolutionizing physics simulation in games.

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01700 gilded spurs were stripped from dead French knights and hung in the Church of Our Lady, Kortrijk.
02The Flemish army had no cavalry — peasant infantry with iron-tipped clubs called goedendags did the killing.
03France lost the Count of Artois and over 1,000 noblemen in a single morning.

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The seal of Mani , the oldest known Manichaean art

01Mani was reportedly flayed and his stuffed skin hung at the city gate of Gundeshapur around 274–277 CE.
02Manichaean manuscripts written in at least seven scripts — including Sogdian, Coptic, and Chinese — survived the purges.
03A Manichaean community in the Chinese city of Quanzhou was still practicing openly as late as the 14th century.

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3D illustration of Gabriel's horn

01The horn's volume is exactly π cubic units — a clean, finite number.
02Its surface area is infinite, calculated by the same integral that gives the volume.
03Evangelista Torricelli discovered the paradox around 1643, calling it a 'mystical' geometric object.

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