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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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The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine

01Apicius reportedly spent 100 million sestertii on food; when 10 million remained, he poisoned himself rather than eat cheaply.
02His cookbook, 'De Re Coquinaria,' lists recipes requiring flamingo tongue, dormouse stuffed with pine nuts, and roasted parrot.
03He reputedly drowned a live mullet in a fish sauce vat to watch it change color as it died, for aesthetic pleasure.

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01The Sutton Hoo ship burial contained 263 gold and garnet objects, along with silver from Byzantium and a Swedish-style helmet.
02The helmet was recovered in 1939 in more than 500 corroded fragments, each catalogued before reconstruction at the British Museum.
03No body was found in the burial chamber — the acidic Suffolk soil dissolved all bone, leaving only the ghost of a king.

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01Some Molossian dogs were deployed carrying burning pitch pots strapped to their bodies into enemy lines.
02Roman commanders used them as a first wave — charging before any human soldier moved.
03The Molossus breed is the direct ancestor of mastiffs, Rottweilers, and Saint Bernards.

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01Quinn's pager pinged 14 times the night he vanished — all from a single unidentified number.
02The live puppy found in Quinn's car had no known owner and was never traced to any source.
03Owens confessed in 2017 to killing Quinn; he had already been in prison for an unrelated cannibalism case.

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01Pompey's head was cut off by Lucius Septimius, a Roman soldier he had once commanded — stabbed from behind in a small boat.
02Caesar and Pompey's alliance was cemented by Pompey marrying Caesar's daughter Julia; she died in 54 BC, and the civil war began five years later.
03Caesar was handed Pompey's signet ring — bearing the image of a lion holding a sword — and wept in front of witnesses.

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01Ocaña's lead of over 9 minutes on Merckx was the largest in Tour history when he crashed out.
02The crash on the Col de Mente triggered a pileup; Merckx himself rode into the fallen Ocaña.
03Merckx declined to pull on the yellow jersey the following morning in an unscripted act of mourning.

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01Andrews swallowed 27 swords simultaneously, the highest count ever verified by Guinness.
02Each blade must pass the pharynx and travel the full length of the esophagus into the stomach.
03The act takes years of conditioning — early practitioners regularly perforated their own esophagi.

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01Skanderbeg won 25 consecutive battles against the Ottomans between 1443 and his death in 1468.
02He was taken from his Christian family at age nine to serve as an elite Ottoman soldier.
03Pope Calixtus III called him 'Champion of Christendom'; his helmet and sword survive in Vienna today.

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