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01Cronje initially denied all charges; he confessed only after Indian police played him recordings of his own phone calls.
02One payment was a leather jacket plus $10,000–$15,000 cash to influence a limited-overs match against India in 2000.
03He was banned for life in October 2000 and died in a cargo plane crash in June 2002, aged 32.

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01Smith was 17 when he wrote Manic Miner; it sold over 30,000 copies on the ZX Spectrum.
02He disappeared from the UK games industry entirely in the mid-1980s, rumored to be living in a commune.
03He resurfaced at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, his first confirmed public appearance in roughly 15 years.

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01Winchester built continuously for 38 years, from 1884 until her death in 1922, reportedly guided by nightly séances.
02The house has 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, and at least 3 doors opening directly onto exterior walls or sheer drops.
03Sarah inherited $20 million and roughly 50% of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company after her husband's death in 1881.

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Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

01The Minoan bull-leaping fresco at Knossos, c. 1450 BC, shows both male and female athletes mid-vault.
02The Spanish bullfight's three-act structure — tercio de varas, banderillas, faena — mirrors ancient sacrificial killing sequences.
03Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' documented 1,200 bulls killed in a single Madrid season in the 1920s.

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01Lorz was photographed accepting a laurel wreath from Alice Roosevelt before the fraud was discovered.
02He was initially disqualified for life, then reinstated within months and won the 1905 Boston Marathon legitimately.
03The actual 1904 Olympic marathon winner, Thomas Hicks, was fed strychnine and brandy mid-race by his handlers.

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01The Zulu impi encircled the British camp in under two hours on January 22, 1879.
02Ammunition screws were rusted shut and quartermasters demanded signed requisitions mid-battle, leaving companies dry.
031,329 British and allied soldiers were killed — the largest single defeat of the Victorian army.

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01Vlad impaled 20,000 Ottoman soldiers on stakes outside Târgoviște in 1462.
02Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, retreated after seeing the forest of bodies.
03Vlad was imprisoned twice by Christian allies who feared him more than the Ottomans did.

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01Van de Velde's ball struck the grandstand rail, his own leg, and landed in deep rough — all on one shot.
02He stood in the water considering playing the submerged ball before finally taking a penalty drop.
03Paul Lawrie won the playoff at 6-over; Van de Velde had started the 18th at 6-under.

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01Vespasian levied a tax on urine collected from Rome's public latrines, sold to tanners and fullers.
02He rose from a family of tax collectors and mule-drivers to found the Flavian imperial dynasty.
03His final words were reportedly 'Vae, puto deus fio' — 'Oh dear, I think I'm becoming a god.'

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