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01Horn reportedly charged $500 per kill and placed a rock under each victim's head as a signature calling card.
02The 1901 murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell turned public opinion; Horn claimed he shot the wrong target.
03His recorded confession was made to a deputy posing as a friend over whiskey in a Cheyenne saloon.

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01Players banged a Beltran-era trash can in the tunnel adjacent to the dugout — one bang for breaking ball, two for fastball.
02The scheme was exposed by pitcher Mike Fiers in November 2019, two years after the Astros' 2017 championship.
03MLB fined the Astros $5 million and stripped draft picks, but no player was suspended — none at all.

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01The West Side Boys held a Royal Irish Regiment patrol of 11 soldiers; one hostage, Ranger Rowan, was released before the raid began.
02SAS and D Squadron assaulted at dawn on September 10, 2000; 25 West Side Boys were killed, one SAS soldier — Brad Tinnion — died.
03Chickens were deliberately scattered into the camp as distraction cover; the entire assault lasted under 20 minutes.

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Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016)

01Gunther von Hagens exhibited a plastinated couple frozen mid-coitus, later removed after public outcry.
02The first Body Worlds show in Tokyo drew 2.9 million visitors in nine months.
03Donated bodies are injected with reactive polymer that replaces every cell's water and fat permanently.

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01Sputnik 2 had no re-entry mechanism; Laika was always going to die — the lie was about when.
02Her body orbited Earth 2,570 times before the craft burned up in April 1958.
03One of her mission engineers, Oleg Gazenko, publicly apologized for her death decades later.

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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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North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise

01The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons of napalm on Korea — more than in any prior conflict in history.
02Napalm B, the refined thermite-gel formula, was tested and standardized for mass production during the Korean War.
03By 1953, U.S. Air Force reports noted there were few remaining targets in North Korea not already destroyed.

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01Army surgeons watched him eat a live cat — skin, bones, and all — in one sitting.
02Hospitalized in 1794, he was expelled after a 14-month-old infant vanished from his ward.
03His body ran so hot that physicians recorded his core temperature as permanently fever-level.

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01Cargill's annual revenues have exceeded $160 billion, surpassing the GDP of many mid-sized nations.
02Founded in 1865 in Conover, Iowa, the company has remained family-controlled for over 150 years.
03Cargill operates in 70 countries and handles an estimated 25% of all U.S. grain exports.

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