Air Rhodesia Flight 825

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A typical crossbow

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Predjama Castle

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ZIPRA guerrillas fired a heat-seeking missile at Air Rhodesia Flight 825 in 1978, then walked among the eighteen survivors and machine-gunned ten of them in the grass. The stewardess hid in a bush and lived.

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.

Ivan Lyon returned to Singapore on a second mission with folding kayaks and a plan to sink more ships. Japanese forces compromised the team; Lyon died armed on a rubber raft, never reaching shore.

NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on games he was assigned to officiate, then fed picks to a mob-connected gambler. He called 3–4 more fouls per game when he had money on the line.

He made $100 million shorting the 1929 crash, then lost it all twice more. Jesse Livermore walked into a New York coat-check room with a pistol in 1940. The note said he was a failure.

The quokka, Australia's smiling marsupial, ejects its pouch joey directly into a predator's path — a muscular contraction, not a choice — then flees while the infant screams.

Built directly into the mouth of a vertical cave high on a cliff face in Slovenia, Predjama Castle housed a rebel knight named Erasmus of Lueg who held off a siege for over a year by receiving supplies through a secret tunnel.

David Parker Ray built a soundproofed trailer in New Mexico fitted with a gynecological chair, a mirror mounted above it, and a recorded tape he played to each new victim explaining what would be done to her. He called it his 'Toy Box.'

Mugabe's hyperinflation peaked in November 2008 at 89.7 sextillion percent monthly; Zimbabwe issued a $100 trillion banknote that could not buy a bus ticket, while life expectancy fell to 37 — the world's lowest.