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01At least 85 people were killed in 48 hours; the true number may exceed 200 — records were destroyed.
02Röhm and Hitler had been on a first-name basis since 1919 — a familiarity almost no one else was granted.
03The German cabinet retroactively legalized the murders three days later, calling them 'emergency state defense.'

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01The Indian Navy's INS Nipat, Nirghat, and Veer launched the first-ever missile attack in Asian naval history.
02Pakistan's oil storage tanks burned for seven continuous days, destroying fuel reserves critical to its war effort.
03A second Indian strike two nights later sank the PNS Dacca and cut Karachi's port communications completely.

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01Lorz rode in a car for miles 11 through 21, then jogged the final five to the finish line.
02Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, had already placed the winner's laurels on Lorz's head.
03The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his handlers during the race as a stimulant.

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01The player cannot skip the white phosphorus strike; the game locks all other options until it fires.
02Loading screens mock the player directly: 'Do you feel like a hero yet?' appears after the massacre.
03Developer Yager used Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as the explicit narrative blueprint, set in Dubai.

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01Donaghy bet on 57 NBA games between 2005 and 2007, going 70–80% accurate due to inside information.
02He passed tips to Thomas Martino, a childhood friend with mob connections, using pre-paid burner phones.
03Donaghy served 15 months in federal prison; his allegations that the NBA itself manipulated playoff games were never formally investigated.

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01WannaCry used EternalBlue, an NSA-developed exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
0280,000 NHS devices were hit; surgeries were cancelled and ambulances diverted across England.
03A 22-year-old named Marcus Hutchins halted the attack by registering a $10.69 domain name.

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01The id team rented office space in a Mesquite, Texas strip mall directly above a little Caesar's pizza.
02Carmack's BSP rendering engine was so fast the team's benchmark software could not time it accurately.
03Doom was installed on more PCs than Windows 95 within its first year, according to Bill Gates's own team.

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01Rubin drew a literal concentric-circle diagram ranking sex acts from 'good' to 'bad' — published in an academic anthology.
02'Thinking Sex' was written during the 1984 Meese Commission panic, when the FBI was raiding adult bookstores.
03Rubin named sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and fetishism as unjustly condemned — while criticizing the condemnation, not endorsing harm.

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01The group beheaded American missionary Martin Burnham's companion Gracia Burnham survived; Martin was killed in a rescue attempt in 2002.
02Abu Sayyaf received a $10 million ransom for 21 hostages taken from the Dos Palmas resort in 2001.
03The group's name translates to 'Bearer of the Sword' — beheading was doctrine, not improvisation.

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