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01Leedskalnin quarried and moved 1,100 tons of coral rock solo, including a 30-ton monolith he raised without machinery.
02Neighbors who stayed up to watch him work reported seeing him sing to the stones; no tool marks were ever found.
03He built the entire structure allegedly as a monument to Agnes Scuffs, a 16-year-old Latvian girl who rejected him the day before their 1913 wedding.

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01Gravano admitted to participating in 19 murders and received only five years under his cooperation deal.
02Gotti's conviction came partly from recordings made inside his Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy.
03After release, Gravano ran an Ecstasy ring in Arizona with his own family — and was arrested again in 2000.

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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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01A judge burned one of Schiele's drawings by candleflame in open court during his 1912 trial in Neulengbach.
02He was held for 24 days before his sentence; during confinement he made 13 drawings documenting his cell.
03Several of his young models were between 12 and 14 years old; he had sought parental permission for some sessions.

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01Nigersaurus had up to 500 teeth packed into a wide, straight-edged muzzle shaped like a vacuum nozzle.
02Each tooth lasted only 14 days before a replacement pushed it out — the fastest tooth-replacement rate known in dinosaurs.
03The skull bones were so paper-thin that CT scanning was required just to understand its basic anatomy.

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01Hauser could not walk on grass without excruciating pain; his feet had never touched uneven ground.
02Some 19th-century investigators believed he was the hereditary Prince of Baden, hidden to clear a succession.
03He was stabbed in a public garden in 1833; his killer left no trace — mirroring his own arrival.

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01Rai stones can measure up to 3.6 meters across and weigh over 4 metric tons.
02One stone sank to the sea floor in transit; the family retained full ownership — everyone knew.
03Economists compare Yap's oral ledger to the gold France claimed from the US Federal Reserve in 1932 without moving it.

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01Flight Sergeant Charles Cox, an RAF radar technician with no combat training, was dropped in to dismantle the Würzburg.
02The raid yielded a Würzburg dish that revealed Germany used 53 cm wavelength — letting the RAF jam it.
03One paratrooper was left behind by accident; he was captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW.

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Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

01Rabbis at the Council of Jamnia, c. 90 CE, debated removing Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew Bible as heretical.
02The word 'hebel,' meaning vapor or breath, appears 38 times — it is the name of Abel, whom Cain killed.
03The final two verses, urging obedience to God, are considered by most scholars to be a later editorial addition.

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