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01The Palace of the Parliament is the world's heaviest building at roughly 4,098,500 tonnes.
02Ceaușescu demolished 19 Orthodox churches and 6 synagogues to clear the construction site.
03So much of Romania's national budget was consumed that winters in the 1980s brought nationwide blackouts and food rationing.

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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.

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01Carthage's inner wall, the Byrsa circuit, reportedly housed 300 elephant stalls and barracks for 20,000 infantry within its structure.
02After the Third Punic War in 146 BCE, Rome demolished every course of the walls and salted the surrounding ground.
03The destruction was so thorough that the precise line of Carthage's outer wall remains disputed among archaeologists today.

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01Hocquenghem published 'Homosexual Desire' in 1972, a year before Foucault's 'The Order of Things' was translated.
02He argued the anus is the one orifice capitalism cannot productively colonize — therefore, liberation lives there.
03Hocquenghem died of AIDS in 1988 at 41, after publicly refusing to hide his diagnosis.

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01Hobby Lobby paid $3 million in civil fines and forfeited 5,500 artifacts to the U.S. government in 2017.
02The smuggled cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals entered the U.S. labeled as 'tile samples' from Israel.
03The Museum of the Bible, funded largely by the Green family, opened in 2017 just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

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01Holt's body was never found despite one of Australia's largest naval search operations covering 10 square miles of coastline.
02A 1983 biography floated the theory that a Chinese submarine extracted Holt, who was allegedly a spy — taken seriously enough to be officially denied.
03Australia named a swimming center the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in his honor.

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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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01Beloki's femur, wrist, and elbow all fractured in a 2003 crash partly triggered by a race vehicle.
02Armstrong famously cut across a field to avoid the same crash — an improvised off-road detour mid-stage.
03Tour motorcycles carry cameras, doctors, and sponsors, yet have no mandatory speed floor or collision protocol.

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Predjama Castle

01Predjama Castle sits 123 metres up a sheer cliff, with the cave forming its rear wall and natural roof.
02Knight Erasmus of Lueg withstood a year-long siege in 1484 by using a hidden cave passage to receive food from the forest above.
03The castle's current form dates to 1570 and remains one of the largest cave castles in the world.

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