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01Donaghy placed or received bets on 57 games between 2005 and 2007, including playoffs he was assigned to work.
02He was identified not by the NBA but by an FBI investigation into organized crime connections.
03After release, Donaghy alleged in a lawsuit that NBA officials instructed referees to extend a 2002 Western Conference Finals series.

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01Hayashi killed 11 enemy soldiers and took out two machine-gun positions after being wounded twice in one action.
02He died of wounds shortly after the engagement — never knowing his DSC would be upgraded to a Medal of Honor.
03His Medal of Honor was awarded in 2000 as part of a congressionally mandated review of 104 Nisei WWII cases.

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01Duterte named the victim — Jacqueline Hamill — while joking about her gang rape and murder at a 1989 prison riot.
02He made the joke during a 2016 presidential campaign rally, then won with 39% of the vote.
03Australian officials formally protested; Duterte responded by calling the ambassador a 'son of a whore.'

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01Batts's real name was William Bentvena; he was a made Gambino soldier, meaning his murder required Commission-level retribution.
02Henry Hill later testified the body was exhumed and moved to a second site in Pennsylvania after police searched the first.
03The shoe-shine insult was real — DeSimone had actually shined shoes as a teenager, making it a deliberate humiliation.

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01Brancheau had 16 years at SeaWorld and was considered its most accomplished trainer at the time of her death.
02OSHA fined SeaWorld $75,000 and banned trainers from entering the water with orcas — a rule SeaWorld fought in court for years.
03Internal documents showed SeaWorld knew Tilikum had been involved in two prior deaths before Brancheau entered his pool.

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01Two farmworkers, one aged 15, killed Terre'Blanche with a panga and a club on April 3, 2010.
02He was found face-down in his bedroom; his dogs, which he famously used to intimidate crowds, did not intervene.
03The 15-year-old received a lighter sentence; the older worker, Chris Mahlangu, was jailed for life.

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01The expedition's chief architect, Alcibiades, defected to Sparta before the fleet even arrived in Sicily.
02The entire Athenian force — roughly 38,000 men — was killed or enslaved by 413 BC.
03Thucydides called it the greatest single military disaster ever suffered by a Greek city-state.

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01Vlad impaled 20,000 Ottoman soldiers on stakes outside Târgoviște in 1462.
02Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, retreated after seeing the forest of bodies.
03Vlad was imprisoned twice by Christian allies who feared him more than the Ottomans did.

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01HeLa cells were mailed to labs globally within a year of harvest; Lacks died of the same cancer eight months after the biopsy.
02Her family learned the cells existed in 1973 — from a researcher who called asking for their DNA.
03A single gram of HeLa cells was sold commercially for around $25 in the 1950s; her estate received nothing.

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