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01Bob Dalton was identified by a fake beard he wore as a disguise; a livery owner recognized his horse instead.
02Citizens retrieved rifles from a hardware store and caught the gang in a crossfire in an alley called Death Alley.
03Emmett Dalton survived twenty-three bullet wounds, was pardoned in 1907, and lived until 1937 selling real estate.

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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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Kanuni i Lek Dukagjinit

01The Kanun stipulates that a murdered man's blood must be repaid with blood — no cash settlement is valid.
02It grants full sanctuary to anyone inside a host's house; killing a guest inverts the feud obligation onto the host's killer.
03Albanian courts in the 1990s recorded defendants invoking Kanun as a legal defense for homicide.

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01General Douglas MacArthur personally approved suppressing Unit 731 evidence from Tokyo trial proceedings.
02Prosecutors received a direct instruction from Washington in May 1947 to exclude all BW testimony.
03Twenty-five men were convicted; not one faced a charge related to experiments on 3,000 or more deaths.

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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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01Michael told his companion 'I think I can make it' before swimming an estimated 12 miles to shore.
02Journalist Carl Hoffman found oral testimony in 2014 from Asmat elders describing eating a white man matching Rockefeller's description.
03The Dutch colonial government quietly suppressed a 1961 investigation report implicating specific villages.

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01She underwent nine cosmetic surgeries between 1990 and 1993, all filmed and transmitted to galleries worldwide.
02During operations she read aloud from Lacan, Artaud, and Kristeva — refusing general anesthesia so she could perform.
03One implant placed a bump above each eyebrow; she modeled them on a Renaissance Venus and Diana.

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01Chopin died October 17, 1849; the game's story ends on that exact date inside the dream world.
02Each in-game musical piece is performed by an orchestra and corresponds to a real Chopin opus number.
03The final boss fight plays Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu — a piece he explicitly asked to be destroyed unpublished.

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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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