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01Wind speeds on Ventoux's summit regularly exceed 90 km/h; the exposed limestone reflects heat like a furnace.
02Tom Simpson collapsed and died 1.3 km from the Ventoux summit on July 13, 1967.
03In 2016, Chris Froome ran 1 km uphill in cycling shoes, bike under his arm, after a crash with a motorcycle.

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01Orbán delivered the speech in Băile Tușnad, Romania, on July 23, 2022, to an annual conservative youth camp.
02His advisor of many years, Zsuzsa Hegedűs, resigned within 48 hours, calling the text 'a pure Nazi speech.'
03Orbán specified nations where 'mixing' had occurred — including Western Europe — and called them 'no longer nations.'

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01Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis on the exact Nile bank where Antinous drowned.
02Antinous was declared a god — one of the last new deities officially recognized by Rome.
03Hadrian was the first Roman emperor to wear a full beard, reportedly to cover facial scars.

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01Travis weighed 200 pounds and had lived as a near-human companion — riding in cars, drinking wine, using a computer.
02Charla Nash required a full face transplant; she testified before Congress to ban private primate ownership in 2009.
03Police shot Travis four times; he retreated to his cage and died there — the 911 call is public record.

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Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s

01The U.S. natural ice industry harvested over 25 million tons annually from lakes by 1880.
02Ice was cut in winter, packed in sawdust, and stored in insulated warehouses until summer delivery.
03A failed ice delivery on a hot day could spoil a family's entire weekly food supply by evening.

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01Sanders interrogated Shirō Ishii personally in autumn 1945, before any formal tribunal was convened.
02He accepted biological weapons research built on thousands of deaths in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
03Sanders never publicly disclosed the contents of the deal; the files stayed classified for over 30 years.

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A block of silica aerogel in a hand.

01Silica aerogel holds 15 Guinness World Records, including lowest-density solid ever produced at 1.9 mg/cm³.
02NASA used aerogel blankets to insulate the Mars Pathfinder rover against temperatures of −80 °C.
03Aerogel can support up to 4,000 times its own weight before the nano-silica structure collapses.

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01Nobel's brother Ludvig died in 1888; a French paper mistakenly ran Alfred's obituary instead.
02Dynamite, patented in 1867, replaced unstable nitroglycerin — Nobel mixed it with diatomaceous earth.
03Nobel left 94% of his estate, roughly 31 million Swedish kronor, to fund five annual prizes.

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01The fleet sailed around three continents; within 45 minutes of contact, 21 of 35 Russian ships were sunk.
02Admiral Rozhestvensky was wounded, captured, and survived — then court-martialed by Russia after returning home.
03Tsushima triggered the 1905 Russian Revolution, the direct precursor to 1917.

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