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01Colonel Connor reported 224 Shoshone dead; tribal oral histories count closer to 400, including infants.
02Soldiers destroyed 75 lodges and seized 1,000 bushels of grain, leaving survivors to freeze in January cold.
03Connor was promoted to brigadier general and praised in San Francisco newspapers within weeks of the massacre.

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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.

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01McCartney used the placeholder lyric 'Scrambled eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs' while writing 'Yesterday.'
02'Yesterday' holds the Guinness record for most cover versions of any song — over 2,200 recorded artists.
03He dreamed the complete melody, woke, played it immediately, and told no one for weeks out of uncertainty.

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Gasoline in a glass jar

01Midgley himself contracted lead poisoning in 1923 while demonstrating tetraethyl lead's safety to reporters.
02Blood lead levels in children fell 78% within a decade of the US leaded-gas phaseout in 1986.
03Midgley died in 1944 strangled by a pulley-and-rope device he invented to lift himself out of bed.

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Plot of shear rate as a function of the shear stress. Dilatants in green.

01A pool of cornstarch-water mix is runnable: fast footsteps keep you on the surface; standing still, you sink.
02BAE Systems developed d3o armour using dilatant polymers that stiffen on impact within milliseconds.
03The same shear-thickening principle appears in Kevlar vests soaked in silica nanoparticle fluid, improving stab resistance by 45%.

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01"Not Like Us" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2024.
02Kendrick performed it live at a Kia Forum concert billed as 'The Pop Out,' drawing 19,000 fans.
03Drake filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group citing the song's defamatory allegations.

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01Six Horsa gliders landed within 47 meters of the bridge; the first touched down at 00:16, 45 minutes before H-Hour.
02The entire bridge was seized in under 10 minutes; only two British soldiers died in the assault itself.
03Pegasus Bridge was renamed after the Airborne's winged-horse emblem; a café owner, Arlette Gondrée, served the first liberated French civilian champagne.

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0112th-century geographers ranked Merv the world's largest city, with a population possibly exceeding 500,000.
02Mongol soldiers were each reportedly assigned quotas of civilians to execute personally at Merv in 1221.
03The irrigation canals (qanats) destroyed during the sack were never fully rebuilt; the surrounding farmland became permanent desert.

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01After the beheadings, the 10,000 Greek survivors elected new leaders overnight and marched 1,500 miles home.
02Xenophon, an amateur with no command, stepped up and wrote the entire story himself in the Anabasis.
03Tissaphernes was later executed by his own Persian king — beheaded on orders from Artaxerxes II.

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