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01Arnold's plot was exposed only because André was stopped by three militia irregulars, none of them acting on official orders.
02Arnold escaped to British lines; André was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, aged 29.
03Arnold received £6,315 — less than a third of the agreed price — because the plot failed before completion.

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01Soros shorted £10 billion in a single day, forcing Britain to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
02The UK Treasury spent an estimated $27 billion in reserves trying to defend the pound — and failed within hours.
03Black Wednesday cost British taxpayers roughly £3.4 billion; Soros personally cleared over $1 billion by market close.

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01All 39 wore identical black Nike Decades — a detail the shoe brand quietly tried to suppress.
02At least 8 male members had voluntarily castrated themselves before the 1997 mass suicide.
03Leader Marshall Applewhite convinced followers their bodies were mere 'containers' for alien souls called 'Next Level beings.'

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01Investigator Russell Poole named LAPD officer David Mack as a suspect before resigning in protest.
02Biggie's family sued the City of Los Angeles; a $1.1 billion lawsuit ended in mistrial due to withheld evidence.
03The LAPD suppressed evidence from its own internal investigation for years, per court filings.

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01At least eleven bodies were exhumed from the Benders' apple orchard in 1873, throats cut after the hammer blow.
02One victim, Dr. William York, had his skull caved in; his brother, a Kansas senator, launched the investigation.
03The family vanished hours before arrest; their fate was never confirmed — possible lynching, possible escape to Europe.

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Red Bird – watercolour on paper

01Giuliani threatened to cut $7 million in city funding to the Brooklyn Museum over the painting.
02Ofili, a Catholic, said the dung was a reverent material — he used it in nearly every painting.
03A man entered the museum and smeared white paint over the canvas; he was arrested on-site.

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01Derby-Lewis's list contained the names, addresses, and vehicle registration numbers of over 60 ANC targets.
02His wife Gaye Derby-Lewis typed the final version of the list and was convicted alongside him as a co-conspirator.
03Derby-Lewis applied for amnesty to the TRC but was denied; he died in prison of cancer in 2016.

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01Port Authority police boarded the departing Air France flight and removed Strauss-Kahn from seat number 1A, first class.
02Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old Guinea-born housekeeper, described the assault in a civil suit that settled for an undisclosed sum.
03French polls showed Strauss-Kahn leading Nicolas Sarkozy by 10 points in presidential projections the week of his arrest.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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