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... that on 26 April 1881 HMS Doterel (pictured) exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?
... that causes of the deaths at the Berlin Wall included shooting, drowning, suffocation, suicide, and falling from a balloon?
... that the 19th-century swindler Bertha Heyman, known as "The Confidence Queen," conned men by pretending to be a wealthy woman who was unable to access her fortune?
... that only four great uncial codices have survived until the present day?
... that after World War II, Polish resistance organizer and Warsaw Uprising fighter Jan Mazurkiewicz was brutally tortured by the authorities in communist Poland?
... that tiny Paederus beetles may have caused some of the ten Plagues of Egypt?
... that the only known report of bloodshed during the simulated Nazi invasion of Winnipeg was from a woman who cut her thumb while preparing toast?
... that Dacian bracelets were used as currency and votive offerings?

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