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Microsoft's rated-E garden game lets piñatas reproduce, eat each other's eggs, and drive rival species to permanent in-game extinction — all with candy gore. It was marketed exclusively at children.

Before turning twenty-three, Rigoberta Menchú had memorized the name and story of every neighbor disappeared in Guatemala's civil war. She dictated her testimony in eight days to anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray — in a second language.

Ben Johnson ran 9.79 seconds in Seoul — the fastest human ever timed — with visibly yellowed eyes. Within 72 hours, stanozolol was confirmed in his urine, and the world record was erased as if it never happened.

Amelio Robles Ávila rode with Emiliano Zapata's forces through the Mexican Revolution, earning the rank of colonel through combat — then lived openly as a man for eight more decades, receiving veterans' recognition from the Mexican government in his nineties.

The Mirdita, a highland Catholic Albanian clan, rose against the Serbian army in 1921 — not over nationalism or religion, but because Serbian officers had violated blood-feud protocols that predated any state they recognized.

US aircraft trapped retreating Iraqi columns on Highway 80, then strafed them for hours. The 60-mile stretch of incinerated vehicles and bodies became so grotesque it helped end the war in 100 hours.

Endless Ocean has no enemies, no fail state, and no score. A manta ray glides past. A whale appears in the deep distance and keeps swimming. Players have reported sitting still underwater for twenty minutes, just watching.

Majungasaurus ate its own kind — we know because its teeth left marks on its own species' bones. A cannibal confirmed not by behavior but by the wound it signed.

For 23 days in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people across greater Washington from a blue Chevrolet Caprice with a sniper's port cut into the trunk. Gas stations became killing fields.