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There was an in-game pandemic in World of Warcraft titled Corrupted Blood incident in the fall of 2005. This event gained an interest among actual real-world disease researchers because it provided valuable information about individual human responses to disease outbreaks.
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Curse of the ninth - a term used in the history of classical music to desribe a superstition that a ninth symphony is destined to be a composer's last and that the composer will be fated to die while or after writing it, or before completing a tenth. Examples include Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler.
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