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01Black Tuesday, October 29, saw 16 million shares sold; the Dow lost 12% of its value in a single session.
02U.S. GDP fell 30% between 1929 and 1933; unemployment reached 25% — one in four American workers.
03The crash wiped out roughly $30 billion in market value within two weeks, equivalent to the entire U.S. GDP at the time.

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01The Atocha sank in 1622 carrying 40 tons of silver, 115 gold bars, and 350 chests of unregistered contraband.
02Fisher's son Kane and daughter-in-law Angel died July 19, 1975 when the salvage vessel Northwind rolled over at night.
03Fisher's daily battle cry for sixteen years was 'Today's the day' — he said it the morning of the main find.

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01304 of the 918 dead at Jonestown were children, most administered poison by their own parents.
02Jones had rehearsed the mass death at least twice before as 'White Night' loyalty drills.
03Congressman Leo Ryan was shot dead on the airstrip minutes before the poisonings began.

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01GoldenEye 007 sold over 8 million copies, making it the third best-selling N64 game of all time.
02The game's multiplayer was added in the final six weeks of development by a single programmer, Steve Ellis.
03Its analog stick aiming system established the twin-stick control standard that every console shooter still uses today.

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01Sutch stood in 40 elections without a single win, from 1963 until his death in 1999 — a record unmatched in British politics.
02His Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto proposed votes at 18 and all-day pub opening hours — both later became law.
03He ran against Margaret Thatcher in her own Finchley constituency in 1983, receiving 235 votes to her 27,453.

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01Lyon's team was betrayed after a Malay fisherman spotted them near Merapas Island in September 1944.
02Lyon died in a firefight on October 16, 1944, paddling a rubber dinghy toward a Japanese gunboat.
03All 23 members of Operation Rimau were killed or executed — none reached Singapore harbour.

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Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"

01China produced 25 U.S. POW confessions to biological warfare; all 25 airmen recanted upon repatriation in 1953.
02A 1952 International Scientific Commission, led by British scientist Joseph Needham, concluded the allegations were credible.
03Declassified Soviet documents suggest the confessions were coerced; no independent physical evidence has ever been verified.

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01Pyrrhus won every major battle against Rome but bled out his army doing it — coining 'Pyrrhic victory.'
02An old woman in Argos threw a roof tile that stunned him; a soldier then cut off his head.
03He survived wars, sieges, and elephants, only to be downed in street-fighting by a civilian.

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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.

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