Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 — gnostek

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01Nineteen Chinese men were lynched in a single night — roughly 10% of Los Angeles's entire Chinese population.
02The mob looted an estimated $40,000 in cash and jewelry from victims before hanging them.
03Eight men were convicted of manslaughter, but all convictions were vacated within a year on procedural grounds.

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01Drake chose the name 'Ozma' after L. Frank Baum's queen of a distant, unreachable land.
02Project Ozma ran for four months in 1960 on an 85-foot dish at Green Bank, West Virginia — the first SETI experiment.
03Drake later formalized his thinking as the Drake Equation, estimating communicating civilizations in the galaxy at anywhere from 1 to millions.

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Fengdu Ghost City

01The Darvaza crater is approximately 70 metres wide and 30 metres deep, still burning since 1971.
02Turkmenistan's president ordered it extinguished in 2022, citing lost national revenue — the fire ignored the decree.
03Temperatures at the crater rim reach high enough that the surrounding sand vitrifies into glass.

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01Thomson published the paradox in 1954; the total switching time sums to exactly 2 minutes via geometric series.
02Standard mathematics is simply silent — both 'on' and 'off' are consistent with the premises.
03The paradox exposes that infinite processes with defined totals need not have defined final states.

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A slab of pykrete

01Pykrete is 86% ice and 14% sawdust, yet it deflects rifle bullets without shattering.
02Project Habbakuk's planned carrier weighed 2 million tons — dwarfing every steel warship ever built.
03A small Pykrete block was demonstrated to Allied chiefs in a Quebec hotel bathtub in 1943.

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01Dwyer distributed sealed envelopes to reporters moments before shooting — they contained a suicide note and an organ donor card.
02The .357 Magnum was legally purchased; the footage aired uncut on several Pennsylvania news broadcasts before editors intervened.
03He maintained innocence in a $300,000 bribery conviction until the moment he died — a later FBI informant corroborated his story.

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01The descent drops at gradients exceeding 10%; the fatal corner offers no runoff and no barrier.
02A basalt stone memorial bearing Casartelli's relief portrait stands at the exact crash point on the col.
03Dante Rezze, a Swiss amateur, died on the same descent during the 1935 Tour de France.

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01Crassus, the richest man in Rome, was killed; legend says molten gold was poured into his mouth.
02Parthian horse archers fired 20,000 arrows per hour from the saddle — a rate Rome had never faced.
03The captured eagle standards were not recovered for 33 years, until diplomatic negotiation under Augustus in 20 BC.

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Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009 until June 2020

01Trump's tweet on August 22, 2018, named Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as directed to 'closely study' the situation.
02South Africa's rand dropped 1.4% against the dollar within two hours of the tweet.
03The Fox News segment that prompted it aired only hours before Trump posted; no briefing was involved.

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