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Emperor Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD, probably of the Antonine plague, during a military campaign near Vindobona, modern-day Vienna.

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The narrator of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho is Patrick Bateman, a young New York investment banker and serial killer.

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The cover of Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon was created by Storm Thorgerson, a member of the Hipgnosis design studio.

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The Moon's average diameter is around 3,474 km. Smaller than the Earth, it remains the fifth largest satellite in the solar system.

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Marine mammals are endothermic, producing their own body heat and maintaining a stable internal temperature, even in cold waters.

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When he signed with Real Madrid in 2009, Cristiano Ronaldo inherited the legendary number 7 jersey, previously worn by Raúl and made famous by him.

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Steve McCurry first went to Afghanistan in 1979, just before the Soviet invasion, to capture striking images of the conflict.

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Buck Owens was one of the pioneers of the Bakersfield sound: an allusion to Bakersfield, California the city where he lived and from which he was inspired for what he preferred to call "American music".

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Table Mountain is a massif in the Western Cape province of South Africa, which overlooks the city of Cape Town.

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Alfred Dreyfus was a captain in the French army. Wrongly accused of espionage in 1894, he was at the heart of the Dreyfus Affair, a major legal scandal.

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