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01Maradona's knuckle contacted the ball at the 51st minute; Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser never consulted his linesman.
02He scored the 'Goal of the Century' in the same game, beating five England players in 11 seconds.
03Maradona admitted the handball on camera in 2005, calling it 'a little with the head, a little with the hand of God.'

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Tollund Man , Denmark, 4th century BC

01Tollund Man's last meal, eaten 12 hours before death, was barley-and-linseed porridge — still identifiable in his stomach.
02Many bog bodies show signs of 'overkill': strangled, throat cut, and then drowned — triple death rituals.
03The acidic, oxygen-free peat dissolves bone while perfectly tanning and preserving skin, hair, and internal organs.

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01AWB members stormed the Kempton Park CODESA negotiations in 1993, driving an armored vehicle through the glass entrance.
02Three AWB members were shot dead by a lone Black police officer during the Bophuthatswana invasion in 1994.
03Terre'Blanche was photographed passed out drunk in a Johannesburg gutter in 2001, ending the movement's mystique.

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01The killers, aged 19, committed at least 21 murders and filmed several of them for personal entertainment.
02The victim, Sergei Yatzenko, was beaten with a hammer, screwdriver, and pipe over several minutes.
03The video spread globally online before investigators identified the perpetrators partly through leaked footage.

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01The Tate Modern, MoMA, and the Pompidou each own at least one tin.
02Some tins have expanded over decades, suggesting fermentation is still occurring inside.
03Manzoni produced them in two months; he died of a heart attack at age 29, two years later.

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Eyguieres curse tablet

01Over 1,600 defixiones have been recovered; one found in Roman Britain names 'Docilianus son of Brucerus' by full name.
02Tablets were sometimes written in reverse script or mirror image to activate the curse's hidden logic.
03Victims cursed ranged from chariot-race rivals to unfaithful lovers to thieves who stole six silver coins.

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01The Old Norse word 'berserkr' likely means 'bear-shirt' — the warrior wore the animal's hide and its soul.
02King Harald Fairhair used berserkers as a personal shock unit at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, c. 872 AD.
03Later Norse law explicitly outlawed berserk behavior — it was treated as a crime once the state no longer needed it.

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01The player cannot skip the white phosphorus strike; the game locks all other options until it fires.
02Loading screens mock the player directly: 'Do you feel like a hero yet?' appears after the massacre.
03Developer Yager used Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as the explicit narrative blueprint, set in Dubai.

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A depiction of a hypothetical Dyson swarm surrounding a star

01Freeman Dyson proposed it in a 1960 paper; he suggested searching for anomalous infrared radiation, not radio signals.
02Building one would require dismantling Jupiter — 318 Earth-masses of raw material — entirely.
03Tabetha Boyajian's 'alien megastructure' star KIC 8462852 was briefly considered a partial Dyson sphere candidate.

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