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01Casartelli died on July 18, 1995, during stage 15 of the Tour — a descent in the Pyrenees.
02The race organisation did not neutralise the stage; riders finished while Casartelli was airlifted, dying, to hospital.
03It was the first Tour fatality since British rider Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in 1967.

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01The Battle of Qadisiyyah in 636 AD ended four days of fighting with Rostam's death and Sasanian collapse.
02Persian legend records his sister, Gordafarid, donning armor and charging Arab lines upon hearing of his death.
03His defeat ended 400 years of Sasanian rule and opened Persia permanently to Islamic conquest.

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01Sputnik 2 had no re-entry mechanism; Laika was always going to die — the lie was about when.
02Her body orbited Earth 2,570 times before the craft burned up in April 1958.
03One of her mission engineers, Oleg Gazenko, publicly apologized for her death decades later.

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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01Keeler was simultaneously sleeping with Ivanov while Profumo was receiving NATO nuclear briefings — in 1961.
02Profumo lied directly to the House of Commons on March 22, 1963 — the lie itself became the career-ending act.
03After resigning, Profumo spent 40 years cleaning toilets and serving meals at Toynbee Hall charity in East London.

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01Drexel pleaded guilty to six felony counts in December 1988 and agreed to pay $650 million in fines.
02The firm filed for bankruptcy on February 13, 1990 — 14 months after the settlement — laying off 5,000 employees.
03At its peak Drexel controlled 45% of the entire U.S. high-yield bond market.

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01Mary weighed approximately five tons; the first execution chain broke, forcing a second attempt before a crowd.
02She killed trainer Red Eldridge on September 11, 1916 — one day into his job.
03The town of Erwin, Tennessee threatened to ban the entire Sparks World Famous Shows circus unless Mary was executed.

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01Domínguez hid his pistol inside a flower bouquet handed to the prime minister at a spa resort.
02The target, Cánovas del Castillo, had ordered the torture of anarchists in Montjuïc prison the year prior.
03The assassination triggered a European wave of anti-anarchist legislation within months.

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Artist's conception of a powerful magnetar in a star cluster

01A magnetar's magnetic field reaches 10^15 gauss — Earth's field is 0.5 gauss.
02SGR 1806-20 released more energy in 0.2 seconds on Dec 27, 2004 than the Sun emits in 250,000 years.
03At 1,000 km, the field would rewrite the quantum structure of your atoms before you felt anything.

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