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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

01First baseman Chick Gandil organized the fix; the players received between $5,000 and $35,000, unevenly distributed.
02Shoeless Joe Jackson actually batted .375 in the Series and hit the only home run — yet was banned for life.
03Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned all eight players permanently, even after a jury acquitted them in 1921.

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01Tupac named Faith Evans directly, implicating a living woman in a public adultery claim.
02The track also threatened the entire Bad Boy roster by name, including Puffy and Mobb Deep.
03Released on 'All Eyez on Me,' one of rap's best-selling albums, giving the insult maximum reach.

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01MacArthur personally approved the immunity agreement in 1947, confirmed in a declassified memo held at the National Archives.
02He presided over the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal while simultaneously ensuring Unit 731 staff were never named in it.
03The US paid Ishii's team $250,000 in cash for their complete experimental archive — equivalent to roughly $3 million today.

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01Bean appointed himself justice of the peace in Langtry, Texas, in 1882 — his only legal credential was a rifle.
02He named his saloon 'The Jersey Lilly' after actress Lillie Langtry, whom he never met until just before his death.
03Bean once acquitted a man of murder because Texas had no law against killing a Chinese railroad worker.

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Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

01In 2016, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' during a floor dispute.
02As president in 2019, he praised Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra — the man who tortured do Rosário — by name.
03Ustra's torture methods included electric shocks; Bolsonaro called him 'a terror for the left' on national television.

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01Foucault was reportedly aware he had AIDS by 1983 and continued frequenting San Francisco bathhouses through that year.
02He coined 'biopower' — the state's management of bodies and populations — in a 1976 lecture at the Collège de France.
03His 'Discipline and Punish' (1975) opens with a four-page description of a man being drawn and quartered in 1757 Paris.

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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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Fengdu Ghost City

01The Darvaza crater is approximately 70 metres wide and 30 metres deep, still burning since 1971.
02Turkmenistan's president ordered it extinguished in 2022, citing lost national revenue — the fire ignored the decree.
03Temperatures at the crater rim reach high enough that the surrounding sand vitrifies into glass.

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01Wind speeds on Ventoux's summit regularly exceed 90 km/h; the exposed limestone reflects heat like a furnace.
02Tom Simpson collapsed and died 1.3 km from the Ventoux summit on July 13, 1967.
03In 2016, Chris Froome ran 1 km uphill in cycling shoes, bike under his arm, after a crash with a motorcycle.

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