Ninja Gaiden II

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Limbless enemies drag themselves across the floor on their chins to bite the player. Ninja Gaiden II's 2008 combat generates severed-limb piles no other game has matched. The genre called it ultraviolence; reviewers called it art.

Christine Jorgensen's 1952 surgery in Copenhagen ran above the fold on the New York Daily News front page, displacing Korean War coverage — a former Army private from the Bronx who became the face of a possibility millions had never heard named.

Maradona punched the ball into England's net with his left fist in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final, then credited 'the Hand of God.' He scored the century's greatest goal four minutes later in the same match.

Mont Ventoux's summit is bare white limestone — no trees, no shade above 1,800 metres. Simpson died here in 1967; Chris Froome ran up it on foot in 2016 after his bike shattered on a crash.

Wilkie Collins drank laudanum by the tumbler — eventually enough to kill several men — and dictated two complete novels in states he later had no memory of. His housekeeper measured the doses. The manuscripts survived him.

India detonated five nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert over forty-eight hours in May 1998 — and the CIA, with satellites overhead, saw nothing until the shockwaves were measured. Pakistan matched them sixteen days later.

One baby Scipionyx, dead 113 million years ago, still holds its liver, intestines, and windpipe in anatomical position. It is the only dinosaur fossil with soft organs visible to the naked eye.

Polish salt miners 64 meters underground carved a Gothic cathedral — vaulted ceilings, chandeliers, bas-relief altarpieces — entirely from salt over 700 years. Mass is still held there; the air tastes of the walls.

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?