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Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

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Ecclesiastes uses the word 'hebel'—breath, vapor, nothing—38 times in 12 chapters. Its conclusion that all human effort is meaningless is so extreme the rabbis debated pulling it from the canon entirely.

The axolotl never undergoes metamorphosis — it breeds, ages, and dies as a permanent larva — and can regenerate a functional heart, spinal cord, and portions of brain within weeks.

Foucault spent his last years cruising San Francisco bathhouses while dying of AIDS — a fact he reportedly knew. The man who said power invented sexuality lived the argument to its end.

Thirty-nine people castrated themselves, donned identical black tracksuits and Nike Decades, and drank phenobarbital pudding to board the Hale-Bopp comet. Their bunk beds were made, bags packed, and hands folded across their chests.

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.

KKR, Vornado, and Bain Capital bought Toys 'R' Us in 2005 for $6.6 billion, immediately saddled it with $5 billion in debt, and spent 13 years watching 33,000 employees lose jobs as the debt ate the stores.

Rome's captured eagle standards were paraded through Parthian streets while 10,000 survivors were marched east to garrison Merv — never to return. Rome lost seven legions; the eagles haunted Augustus for decades.

Pakistan publicly claimed its 93,000 captured soldiers in Indian camps were 'volunteers' — a fiction sustained for two years while the men waited. Bhutto finally negotiated their return by conceding terms he publicly denied ever signing.

The Second Lateran Council banned the crossbow against Christians in 1139 — the first arms-control treaty in Western history. Knights ignored it, and within a century the bolt had made armor obsolete and chivalry theatrical.