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01Thirty pieces of silver — the price paid — was roughly a month's wages for a laborer in Roman Judea.
02The Gospels cannot agree on how Judas died: Matthew says he hanged himself; Acts says his bowels burst open in a field.
03Dante placed Judas in the ninth and deepest circle of Hell, frozen in Satan's mouth alongside Brutus and Cassius.

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Exterior view of the building known as Ransom Room, in Cajamarca where the Inca Atahualpa was confined.

01The ransom room measured roughly 22 feet long by 17 feet wide; gold filled it once, silver twice.
02Estimated value of Atahualpa's ransom: over $1.5 billion in today's terms — the largest ever paid.
03Pizarro's justification for execution was a fabricated charge of plotting rebellion after payment was complete.

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01The 'bullet fees' charged to grieving families — typically around $1 Ethiopian — became a symbol of the campaign's bureaucratic cruelty.
02Mengistu was convicted of genocide in absentia by an Ethiopian court in 2006 and sentenced to death.
03He has lived under the personal protection of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe since his 1991 flight from Addis Ababa.

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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'

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01Drake chose the name 'Ozma' after L. Frank Baum's queen of a distant, unreachable land.
02Project Ozma ran for four months in 1960 on an 85-foot dish at Green Bank, West Virginia — the first SETI experiment.
03Drake later formalized his thinking as the Drake Equation, estimating communicating civilizations in the galaxy at anywhere from 1 to millions.

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01Crassus was worth an estimated 200 million sesterces — enough to fund Rome's legions for years.
02His head was sent to the Parthian king Orodes II during a performance of Euripides' Bacchae.
03He built his fortune partly by buying burning buildings cheaply, then extinguishing them with his private fire brigade.

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01Chestnut consumed 76 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in exactly 10 minutes in 2023.
02A protestor rushed the stage and tackled him mid-competition; Chestnut subdued them without stopping eating.
03He has won Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 16 times — more than any other competitor in history.

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01Buhen's outer wall featured loopholes angled to allow bowmen to cover the moat floor without exposure — 3,800 years ago.
02The fortress enclosed an area of roughly 150 by 170 metres on the west bank of the Nile at the Second Cataract.
03When the Aswan High Dam was built in the 1960s, Buhen was submerged beneath Lake Nasser, permanently.

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Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) [ clarification needed ]

01Hydrogen atoms are small enough to diffuse through solid steel at room temperature without any visible entry point.
02High-strength steels above 1,000 MPa yield strength are most vulnerable — the stronger the steel, the worse the risk.
03The 2013 San Francisco Bay Bridge bolt failures were caused by hydrogen embrittlement in A354 grade rods.

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