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01Mario Kart Wii sold 37.38 million copies, making it the best-selling Mario Kart entry in the series.
02The included Wii Wheel cost Nintendo almost nothing to manufacture, yet players consistently rated it as satisfying.
03Online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection let players race strangers worldwide — a first for console Mario Kart.

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01Two victims had fractured ribs consistent with 20,000 lbs of force — no external bruising.
02Lyudmila Dubinina's tongue, eyes, and lips were missing; soft tissue only, no blade marks.
03Soviet investigators closed the case citing 'an unknown compelling force' — then sealed it for 30 years.

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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.

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01Rommel captured Monte Matajur with 150 men, taking 9,000 prisoners — earning the Pour le Mérite at age 29.
02Italy lost 300,000 prisoners, 10,000 dead, and 30,000 wounded in six days of fighting at Caporetto.
03The catastrophe directly inspired Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' — he drove ambulances on that front.

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01Rommel was in Rome celebrating his birthday; his HQ address had been fed to British intelligence incorrectly.
02Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich-Wilhelm Leutnant was killed in his bedroom by Keyes's raiding party on November 18, 1941.
03Colonel Geoffrey Keyes won a posthumous Victoria Cross for the mission — he was 24 years old.

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01Hajiro advanced solo on two German machine-gun positions and one sniper in the Vosges Mountains, October 1944.
02His Distinguished Service Cross was upgraded to the Medal of Honor in June 2000 — 56 years after the action.
03Hajiro's family was interned at Gila River camp while he fought in France.

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01York's Tama-Re compound in Eatonton, Georgia, included a full-scale pyramid, sphinx, and obelisk he built himself.
02Federal conviction in 2004 cited 117 counts of child molestation; victims ranged from age 4 to 14.
03York claimed he was an alien from the 'Illyuwn' galaxy sent to prepare Black Americans for ascension.

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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 Black Mesa Research Facility was designed as a structurally plausible underground complex spanning multiple biomes.
02Half-Life won over 50 'Game of the Year' awards in 1998, more than any title before it.
03Valve's follow-up Half-Life 2 in 2004 shipped with the Source engine, revolutionizing physics simulation in games.

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