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01The rope was too long for Ketchum's weight; the jerk of the 1901 drop severed his head entirely from his body.
02His headless torso stood upright for several seconds before falling — witnessed by a crowd of several hundred.
03Ketchum's last words were 'I'll be in hell before you start breakfast, boys' — the drop came immediately after.

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01She rendered three women into soap bars and teacakes, feeding the cakes to visiting neighbors.
02Her stated motive was a fortune-teller's prophecy that one of her children would die in WWII.
03Sentenced to 30 years plus 3 in a criminal asylum; her soap-making pot is on display in a Rome museum.

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01Maradona's knuckle contacted the ball at the 51st minute; Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser never consulted his linesman.
02He scored the 'Goal of the Century' in the same game, beating five England players in 11 seconds.
03Maradona admitted the handball on camera in 2005, calling it 'a little with the head, a little with the hand of God.'

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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01Ergotamine, derived from the same fungus, was the direct chemical precursor to LSD, synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938.
02In the Pont-Saint-Esprit outbreak of 1951, at least 7 people died and 50 were committed to asylums.
03Gangrenous ergotism caused limbs to turn black and drop off — medieval sufferers called it 'St. Anthony's Fire.'

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Takifugu in a tank

01Tetrodotoxin is 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide by weight; the fugu liver holds the highest concentration.
02Between 1996 and 2015, 23 people died in Japan from fugu poisoning — almost all amateur fishermen cooking their own catch.
03Chefs must present a valid fugu license; unlicensed preparation carries up to two years in Japanese prison.

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01The mission 'Death from Above' is unwinnable by design; the player's character dies regardless of input.
02The level was set in an unnamed Middle Eastern city destroyed by a 10-kiloton nuclear detonation.
03Call of Duty 4 sold over 14 million copies — its unwinnable death scene played by more people than any prior war film audience.

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01The 442nd suffered roughly 800 casualties rescuing 211 men of the 36th Infantry's 'Lost Battalion' in October 1944.
02The Texans had been surrounded in the Vosges for a week before Japanese American soldiers broke through.
03The 442nd became the most decorated unit of its size in U.S. military history — largely from this campaign.

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Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .

01Krypteia initiates were given a knife and sent into the countryside to kill helots without witnesses.
02The ritual was supervised by the ephors — Sparta's top magistrates — making murder an official curriculum.
03Helots outnumbered Spartans roughly 7-to-1; the Krypteia was demographic terror dressed as a rite of passage.

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