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Born to a mule-driver's family, Vespasian taxed public urinal collections and, when his son Titus complained, held a coin to his nose and asked if it smelled. On his deathbed he quipped, 'I think I'm becoming a god.'

Switch a lamp on and off — once per second, then half a second, then a quarter — completing infinite switches in two minutes flat. Mathematics gives no answer to whether it's on or off at minute two.

A Portuguese millionaire built an inverted tower tunneling 30 meters straight down into bedrock, lit by a single shaft of light, for Rosicrucian and Masonic initiation rituals. The estate has no church, only crypts.

He rose ten cubits off the ground — glowing gold — while his students watched twice. A Syrian Neoplatonist who made ritual magic philosophically respectable. What do you do with a man who keeps floating?

A US GBU-27 penetrator cooked 408 civilians alive inside a reinforced bunker on February 13, 1991. Charred handprints remain on the walls today. The US still insists it was a military target.

The pygmy slow loris is the only primate with a venomous bite — it licks a brachial gland on its arm, mixes toxin with saliva, and delivers a bite that can trigger anaphylactic shock.

Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen eating dinner in Yemen, was killed by a drone two weeks after his father. The Obama administration later said it was a mistake. His grandfather asked why.

A slave who nearly broke Rome crucified 6,000 captured soldiers along 132 miles of the Appian Way — one body per telephone-pole interval. His own body was never found.

Herodotus ranked Babylon's walls among the world's wonders; excavations showed he undersold them — the outer wall ran 90 feet thick, wide enough to turn a four-horse chariot on top.