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01Anderson wore a scalp necklace into the Centralia raid of September 27, 1864, where his men killed 124 Union soldiers.
02He kept a silk cord knotted with a notch for every man he personally killed; the cord held over 50 knots.
03Shot through the head and killed at age 24, his corpse was propped up, photographed, and displayed in a Richmond, Missouri storefront.

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01Cridland has had medical nerve-conduction studies confirm genuine absence of pain response, not performance.
02He passes rods through his throat without hitting the trachea or carotid by long practice of anatomy.
03He performs under the name Zamora the Torture King and has toured since the 1980s.

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01Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000–100,000 Kurds with chemical weapons.
02He personally signed the document declaring Kuwait Iraq's 19th province in August 1990.
03Convicted and sentenced to death four separate times before his 2010 execution by hanging.

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01Melanosomes in the preserved skin allowed researchers to reconstruct a dark-backed, pale-bellied striped pattern in 2016.
02Countershading suggests Psittacosaurus lived in a forest environment with overhead light — a habitat conclusion from skin pigment alone.
03The same specimen reveals a cloaca, confirming for the first time what a non-avian dinosaur's vent actually looked like.

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01Diocletian is the only Roman emperor to voluntarily and permanently abdicate while in full power.
02When colleagues begged him to retake power, he replied that if they'd seen his cabbages, they wouldn't ask.
03His palace at Split, Croatia, was so massive that a medieval city grew up inside its walls.

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01Receiver was built in seven days for the 7DFPS game jam in 2012 by Wolfire Games.
02The game models hammer, safety, cylinder, and magazine as independent mechanical states that interact realistically.
03Its procedurally generated levels mean no two runs share the same room layout or enemy placement.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China

01An estimated 20,000 bears are currently held on bile farms in China and Vietnam, many in 'crush cages.'
02Bear bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid — a compound now synthesized cheaply in labs, making farming medically redundant.
03Moon bears on farms are often declawed and defanged at capture; some have been caged since cubhood.

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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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