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01Jane was buried next to Hickok in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery on August 4, 1903, per her deathbed request.
02She dressed in buckskin and Army uniform throughout her career, often passing as male on military expeditions.
03Her autobiography, published 1896, claimed she married Wild Bill — a claim historians have never been able to verify.

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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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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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01He consumed the Cessna 150 between 1978 and 1980, eating roughly 1 kg of metal per day.
02His stomach lining was twice the normal thickness, confirmed by endoscopy, allowing metal passage.
03Ironically, bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him ill; aircraft aluminum did not.

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01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.

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01The column's 190-metre relief spiral shows explicit scenes of decapitation and mass drowning of Germanic prisoners.
02A hermit was permitted to inhabit the column's interior chamber for an extended period in the medieval era.
03Pope Sixtus V replaced Aurelius's statue at the top with one of Saint Paul in 1589.

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01Greek fire was first deployed in 672 AD, repelling the Arab siege of Constantinople by sea.
02The weapon burned on water — witnesses described ships continuing to burn as they sank.
03The recipe was a state secret; even modern analysis cannot pin down all its components.

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01Governor White's own granddaughter, Virginia Dare — the first English child born in the Americas — was among the 117 who vanished.
02The word CROATOAN was the name of a nearby island and an allied Indigenous people; White never reached it to check.
03A 2020 DNA study traced possible Roanoke descendants among the Lumbee people of North Carolina.

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01Physio Steph Brennan bit the capsule himself; the blood on his lips exposed the fraud immediately.
02The substituted player, Tom Williams, was later found to have also cut his own lip with a scalpel.
03Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from rugby for three years over the scheme.

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