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01The Martel Chamber inside Škocjan is 308 metres long, 89 metres wide, and 146 metres tall — among Earth's largest underground spaces.
02The Reka River's underground section drops 163 metres in elevation before emerging as the Timavo River near the Adriatic coast.
03The caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, partly for their underground ecosystem of endemic species.

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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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01Winchester built continuously for 38 years, from 1884 until her death in 1922, reportedly guided by nightly séances.
02The house has 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, and at least 3 doors opening directly onto exterior walls or sheer drops.
03Sarah inherited $20 million and roughly 50% of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company after her husband's death in 1881.

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01Agnew accepted at least $147,500 in bribes while serving as Vice President, some payments made inside the White House itself.
02He resigned via a single-sentence letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, bypassing Congress entirely.
03His plea deal made him the second Vice President in U.S. history to resign — the first was John C. Calhoun, in 1832.

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01The letter was addressed not to a government but to a private citizen, Walter Rothschild.
02Britain simultaneously held agreements with Arab leaders implying contradictory promises over the same land.
03The phrase 'national home' was chosen deliberately — lawyers had argued 'state' carried too much legal weight.

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01Computer models show the tail tip could exceed 340 m/s — the speed of sound — generating a crack audible for miles.
02The tail contained roughly 80 vertebrae, more than almost any other structure in the animal kingdom.
03Diplodocus's neck was held nearly horizontal, not upright — it grazed low like a vacuum cleaner the length of a bus.

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01A RH-53D helicopter clipped a C-130 tanker at Desert One; both exploded, killing all eight crew.
02President Carter authorized only six helicopters as minimum; three failed en route, forcing abort before Iran was reached.
03Delta Force commander Charlie Beckwith wept on live television after the mission collapsed on April 24, 1980.

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Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592)

01Kuru, spread by endocannibalism among the Fore people, killed an estimated 1,100 people between 1957 and 2004.
02Women and children ate the brain and organs; men ate muscle — explaining why women died at far higher rates.
03Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek identified kuru's prion cause in 1976 after living with the Fore for years.

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01Vanderbilt ordered New York Central trains to stop at the Harlem River bridge in January 1867, stranding passengers in the cold.
02He accumulated a fortune of $105 million by death in 1877 — the largest in U.S. history to that point.
03When a doctor told him to stop working, Vanderbilt replied he could not afford to stop; he was worth $100 million.

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