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01Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel halted in 1992 with the shell complete; it sat visibly unfinished for 16 years.
02The building was so embarrassing that North Korean state maps omitted it entirely for nearly two decades.
03At 330 meters tall, it would be the 4th-tallest hotel on Earth if it ever opened; its 3,000 rooms remain empty.

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3D illustration of Gabriel's horn

01The horn's volume is exactly π cubic units — a clean, finite number.
02Its surface area is infinite, calculated by the same integral that gives the volume.
03Evangelista Torricelli discovered the paradox around 1643, calling it a 'mystical' geometric object.

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01The Hoxne Hoard contained 14,865 gold and silver coins, 200 gold and silver objects, and weighed nearly 8 kg total.
02A gold body-chain belonging to 'Juliane' — her name stamped in the clasp — was among the jewelry; she buried it around AD 407.
03Lawes received a full market-value reward of £1.75 million, split with the landowner; he donated part to the local church.

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01The prisoners had survived the Bataan Death March; some weighed under 100 pounds on liberation day.
02Filipino guerrillas blocked all four roads into Cabanatuan simultaneously to prevent Japanese reinforcement.
03The entire rescue and withdrawal took 30 minutes; not one of the 511 POWs was killed in the raid.

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01He reportedly killed the Turkic Khagan Shaba personally in single combat during the 589 AD campaign.
02Khosrow II stripped him of command after the victory; Bahram responded by seizing the Sasanian throne.
03He ruled as Bahram VI — the only non-royal usurper to hold the Sasanian crown — for about two years.

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems

01Bismarck edited the Ems Dispatch over dinner, then released it to newspapers the same evening.
02France declared war on Prussia within five days of the doctored text appearing in print.
03The resulting Franco-Prussian War ended with Germany's proclamation as a unified empire at Versailles.

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2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima ( National Roman Museum )

01The underground chamber included a small bed, lamp, bread, and water — Rome's legal fiction of non-murder.
02Vestals served 30-year terms; unchastity before completion meant live burial in the Campus Sceleratus.
03Her seducer was publicly flogged to death — but she alone was entombed.

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01Jones's documentary 'Trader' filmed him forecasting a 1987 market crash before Black Monday wiped 22% off the Dow.
02He reportedly tripled his money during Black Monday by holding massive short positions entering October 1987.
03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.

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