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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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Facsimile of the Einstein–Szilard letter

01Einstein later called signing the letter 'the one great mistake of my life.'
02Szilárd drafted the letter; Einstein signed it — lending the weight of his name alone.
03Roosevelt's response was to appoint a Uranium Committee within weeks of receiving it.

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Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884)

01Llywelyn drove his sword through Gelert before seeing the wolf's carcass hidden beneath the cradle.
02The village of Beddgelert, Wales, is named for the hound; a grave monument still stands there.
03The legend is likely an 18th-century tourist invention planted by an innkeeper named David Pritchard.

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01Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado — an American citizen by birth, killed by American order.
02He had run away from home to find his father; he never made it back alive.
03White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Abdulrahman should have 'had a more responsible father.'

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01Ray's welcome tape ran for 30 minutes, narrating planned tortures in clinical, methodical detail.
02The trailer contained over $100,000 worth of purpose-built medical and restraint equipment.
03No bodies were ever recovered; the confirmed victim count remains unknown, possibly in the dozens.

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01François Mitterrand ate two ortolans at his last meal, eight days before dying of prostate cancer.
02The bird is drowned in Armagnac brandy, roasted, then eaten skull-first, bones cracking in the mouth.
03Ortolan hunting has been illegal in France since 1999; the tradition continued in secret among the elite.

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01Decebalus's head was cut off and displayed in Rome's Forum after his suicide in 106 AD.
02His death scene was carved into Trajan's Column, making it one of antiquity's most documented suicides.
03He hid Dacia's treasury — estimated at 165 tonnes of gold — under a diverted river before his fall.

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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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01The pig's campaign slogan was 'They nominate a president and he eats the people; we nominate a president and the people eat him.'
02Abbie Hoffman and six co-conspirators were charged; Pigasus was confiscated by Chicago police and sent to a farm.
03The nomination was filed as a genuine political statement against both major parties at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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