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The Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini sets a precise cash tariff for murder, specifies which rooms of a house grant sanctuary, and has been cited in Albanian court defenses as recently as the 1990s.

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.

Braid's final level reverses time to reveal the princess the player has been chasing is not a captive — she is running from the player. The epilogue text identifies her as the atomic bomb. Jonathan Blow hid this in 2008.

Thirty silver coins, a prearranged kiss in a moonlit garden, and a civilization's entire moral vocabulary for treachery was set. Judas Iscariot handed over one man and poisoned his own name for two thousand years.

Hector Pieterson was thirteen when a bullet dropped him in Soweto on June 16, 1976. Sam Nzima's photograph — Hector carried by a screaming Mbuyisa Makhubo — ran worldwide and became the image of apartheid. Makhubo disappeared.

Published anonymously in Hamburg in 1670, Spinoza's Tractatus argued Scripture was human-authored propaganda. Within a year, four separate European governments banned it; it circulated in disguise as a medical textbook.

One descent on the Col de Portet d'Aspet killed Casartelli and a stone memorial marks the exact concrete block that ended him. Riders cross it every Tour, sometimes placing a hand on the monument.

On August 19, 1951, Eddie Gaedel — 3 feet 7 inches tall — batted for the St. Louis Browns in a real AL game, wearing number 1/8. He drew a four-pitch walk and was pulled immediately.

Every object aboard Talos I — coffee mugs, chairs, potted plants — could be a Mimic alien holding its shape until you step close. The station's 300+ rooms become a sustained meditation on trust, perception, and the architecture of dread.