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01Johnson's urine sample tested positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid; his world record of 9.79 was formally struck.
02His eyes were jaundiced yellow at the finish line — visible in broadcast footage, a physiological sign of steroid use.
03Of the eight finalists in that 100m race, six have since been linked to doping violations or investigations.

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01Cho mailed a video manifesto to NBC News between his two attacks, a 2-hour window police did not close.
0232 people were killed; the Virginia Tech massacre remains the deadliest U.S. campus shooting on record.
03The shooting exposed a gap in federal law: Cho had been ruled mentally ill but passed background checks.

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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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01Thirty pieces of silver — the price paid — was roughly a month's wages for a laborer in Roman Judea.
02The Gospels cannot agree on how Judas died: Matthew says he hanged himself; Acts says his bowels burst open in a field.
03Dante placed Judas in the ninth and deepest circle of Hell, frozen in Satan's mouth alongside Brutus and Cassius.

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01Booker consumed 49 glazed doughnuts in 8 minutes — roughly one every 9.8 seconds.
02He weighed approximately 400 pounds during his competitive eating peak and stood 6 feet 3 inches.
03Off the circuit, Booker works as a New York City Transit subway conductor and records rap music.

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01She rendered three women into soap bars and teacakes, feeding the cakes to visiting neighbors.
02Her stated motive was a fortune-teller's prophecy that one of her children would die in WWII.
03Sentenced to 30 years plus 3 in a criminal asylum; her soap-making pot is on display in a Rome museum.

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North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise

01The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons of napalm on Korea — more than in any prior conflict in history.
02Napalm B, the refined thermite-gel formula, was tested and standardized for mass production during the Korean War.
03By 1953, U.S. Air Force reports noted there were few remaining targets in North Korea not already destroyed.

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01Vanderbilt ordered New York Central trains to stop at the Harlem River bridge in January 1867, stranding passengers in the cold.
02He accumulated a fortune of $105 million by death in 1877 — the largest in U.S. history to that point.
03When a doctor told him to stop working, Vanderbilt replied he could not afford to stop; he was worth $100 million.

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01The explosion created a crater 170 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep on July 30, 1864.
02Generals ordered troops into the crater itself rather than around it; Confederate fire from the rim was uncontested.
03Union losses: 3,798 men in under four hours. Grant called it 'the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war.'

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