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01James had removed his gun belt moments before Ford shot him — the only time witnesses recalled him unarmed indoors.
02His mother Zerelda charged twenty-five cents admission to visitors who came to see his grave on the family farm.
03The James gang's final robbery, at Blue Cut, Missouri in 1881, netted only $1,500 split among the whole crew.

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Radium painters working in a factory

01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.

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01Wilson took LSD at least a dozen times between 1956 and 1959, supplied by researchers at the Veterans Administration.
02He wrote to AA's trustees arguing that LSD could 'temporarily wipe out the ego' and accelerate the Twelfth Step.
03The AA board rejected his proposal; Wilson continued his LSD sessions privately while remaining AA's public moral authority.

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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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01Sue's foot bones show gout — a metabolic disease never before diagnosed in a non-avian dinosaur.
02The jaw lesions match trichomonosis, a parasite that today kills pigeons by dissolving bone from inside.
03Sue sold at auction in 1997 for $8.36 million, then a world record for any fossil.

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Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

01Weimar inflation peaked at 29,500% per month in October 1923; a postage stamp cost 10 billion marks.
02The German government printed money to pay World War I reparations; by 1923, paper notes were cheaper as fuel than firewood.
03A new currency, the Rentenmark, was introduced November 15, 1923 — one Rentenmark exchanged for one trillion old marks.

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01Antony left his own fleet and boarded a smaller vessel to chase Cleopatra's retreating squadron.
02Octavian captured or sank roughly 200 ships; Antony's abandoned army surrendered seven days later.
03Cleopatra had brought her personal treasury aboard — the fleet may have been covering a financial retreat.

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01Trajan's Column stands 38 metres tall; its spiral frieze depicts 2,662 individual human figures.
02The column served as Trajan's tomb; his ashes were sealed in a golden urn in its base.
03It was cast from 29 hollow marble drums, each weighing roughly 32 tonnes, stacked with millimetre precision.

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Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

01Low Taek Jho, a 28-year-old financier, allegedly orchestrated the diversion of $4.5 billion from the Malaysian state fund.
02Goldman Sachs paid $2.9 billion in 2020 — its largest-ever settlement — for its role arranging 1MDB bond offerings.
03Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 on all seven counts and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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