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01King Corobo recruits citizens by walking up and bowing to them, after which they follow him voluntarily.
02The game's soundtrack samples and recomposes themes from Dvořák, Offenbach, and Beethoven throughout its playtime.
03Little King's Story was made by a small team at Marvelous Entertainment and nearly went unpublished outside Japan.

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The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395 –1399. Each panel is 53 cm × 37 cm (21 in × 15 in) .

01The Wilton Diptych was painted around 1395, possibly for Richard II's personal devotion, and measures just 37 by 53 centimetres open.
02Inside the angel's globe — 13mm across — infrared analysis in 1993 revealed a painted island with a ship and castle.
03Eleven angels in ultramarine blue surround the Virgin, each wearing Richard II's personal badge of a white hart.

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01Arnold's plot was exposed only because André was stopped by three militia irregulars, none of them acting on official orders.
02Arnold escaped to British lines; André was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, aged 29.
03Arnold received £6,315 — less than a third of the agreed price — because the plot failed before completion.

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01Gould secretly recruited President Grant's brother-in-law to block Treasury gold sales, enabling the corner.
02Gold prices plunged 20% in minutes on September 24, 1869, wiping out brokers across the country.
03Gould had already sold his gold position before the crash he engineered; his partner Fisk simply repudiated his contracts.

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01The SSC's ring would have been 87 km in circumference — three times the size of the LHC.
022,000 workers were laid off the day the Senate voted to cut funding, October 1993.
03The abandoned tunnels under Ellis County, Texas were briefly considered as a data center in 2021.

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01The coronation consumed $22 million, roughly one-third of the entire country's GDP for that year.
02Bokassa personally beat schoolchildren with a cane during the 1979 Bangui massacre that finally ended French support.
03After exile and return, a Central African court sentenced him to death — then commuted it; he died free in Paris, 1996.

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01Black Tuesday, October 29, saw 16 million shares sold; the Dow lost 12% of its value in a single session.
02U.S. GDP fell 30% between 1929 and 1933; unemployment reached 25% — one in four American workers.
03The crash wiped out roughly $30 billion in market value within two weeks, equivalent to the entire U.S. GDP at the time.

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01Goya painted it as a mural on his dining room wall, not on canvas — never for public display.
02The painting was transferred to canvas in 1874, roughly 46 years after Goya's death, by Salvador Martínez Cubells.
03The figure is missing its head — implying Saturn has already eaten it — a detail Goya added that contradicts the myth.

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01The player cannot skip the white phosphorus strike; the game locks all other options until it fires.
02Loading screens mock the player directly: 'Do you feel like a hero yet?' appears after the massacre.
03Developer Yager used Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as the explicit narrative blueprint, set in Dubai.

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