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01Olive Oatman was sold between tribes — first held by Yavapai, then traded to the Mohave for two horses and blankets.
02The Mohave tattooed Olive's chin in a pattern they said would identify her in the afterlife.
03After her 1856 rescue, Olive wore a high collar to hide the tattoo but lectured publicly about her five years in captivity.

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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.

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01The three brothers killed 11 people together; Linwood was the first to be executed, in 1984.
02All three escaped Mecklenburg Correctional Center simultaneously in May 1984, using stolen guard uniforms.
03James Briley was recaptured in Philadelphia within six days and executed the following year.

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01Nixon gave no advance notice to the IMF, the G10, or allied finance ministers before the August 15, 1971 broadcast.
02The U.S. held only $10 billion in gold reserves against $80 billion in foreign-held dollar claims at the time.
03The 'temporary' 10% import surcharge Nixon imposed that night was never formally repealed under its original authority.

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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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01Ray's welcome tape ran for 30 minutes, narrating planned tortures in clinical, methodical detail.
02The trailer contained over $100,000 worth of purpose-built medical and restraint equipment.
03No bodies were ever recovered; the confirmed victim count remains unknown, possibly in the dozens.

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01The repository was designed to warn off humans for 10,000 years using non-linguistic symbols.
02Obama's DOE withdrew the license application in 2010, stranding $15 billion of completed work.
03High-level waste currently sits in temporary pools at 75 reactor sites across 33 U.S. states.

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The immortal Zhang shooting at the Tiangou

01Tiangou's tail turned black during the theft of heavenly fire — a detail preserved across regional variants.
02Chinese eclipse tradition held that Tiangou was swallowing the sun; loud drumming forced him to release it.
03The Panhu myth describes a divine dog who won a princess by delivering an enemy king's head.

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01Buckminsterfullerene — C60 — has exactly 60 carbon atoms forming 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
02Harry Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley discovered it in 1985 and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
03C60 naturally occurs in the soot of candle flames and in the atmosphere of certain carbon-rich giant stars.

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