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01Clive's force at Plassey numbered roughly 3,000; the Nawab's army stood at over 50,000, yet losses were fewer than 80 British dead.
02Mir Jafar's reward was the throne of Bengal — but the East India Company removed and reinstated him twice within six years.
03The Bengali term 'Mir Jafar' remains a living insult for traitor, used in political discourse to this day.

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01Barak personally killed Kamal Adwan by entering his apartment building disguised as a brunette woman.
02Three PLO commanders were killed simultaneously in three separate Beirut addresses on April 9, 1973.
03The operation ran alongside a naval commando assault on PLO headquarters the same night.

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Takifugu in a tank

01Tetrodotoxin is 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide by weight; the fugu liver holds the highest concentration.
02Between 1996 and 2015, 23 people died in Japan from fugu poisoning — almost all amateur fishermen cooking their own catch.
03Chefs must present a valid fugu license; unlicensed preparation carries up to two years in Japanese prison.

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01Casartelli's skull fractured on a roadside concrete drainage block on the Portet d'Aspet descent.
02He was 24, married, with a son born just months before the race.
03Lance Armstrong won the very next stage and pointed skyward at the line, for Casartelli.

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01The first detected signal, GW150914, lasted just 0.2 seconds and shifted mirrors by 10⁻¹⁸ meters.
02LIGO has two identical detectors 3,002 km apart in Louisiana and Washington to filter out local noise.
03The two merging black holes were 29 and 36 solar masses; their collision radiated more power than all stars combined.

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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.

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01Senator Joseph Lieberman named Night Trap by title in a 1993 Senate subcommittee hearing on video game violence.
02The game was originally developed for the unreleased NEMO console in 1987 — six years before its Senate debut.
03Sega pulled Night Trap from shelves voluntarily during the hearings; it was later re-released on Steam in 2017.

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Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01At Carrhae, Surena killed roughly 20,000 Romans and captured 10,000, destroying Crassus's entire eastern army.
02He killed the triumvir Crassus — one-third of Rome's ruling power — ending Rome's richest man.
03King Orodes II had Surena executed shortly after the victory, reportedly fearing his general's growing prestige.

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01Hannibal's double-envelopment pincer — wings retreating to fold inward — became the template taught in military academies today.
02The dead included one consul, two former consuls, 29 of 48 military tribunes, and 80 senators.
03Romans were so tightly packed they couldn't raise their sword arms — they suffocated or were stabbed standing upright.

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