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The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

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On March 21, 1960, South African police fired into a crowd of sixty-nine protesters in Sharpeville — most bullets entered their backs. The massacre lasted roughly forty seconds. It triggered South Africa's first international arms embargo.

Bokassa spent $22 million — one-third of the Central African Empire's annual budget — on a coronation modeled on Napoleon's, including a throne cast as a two-ton golden eagle, while France quietly paid the bill.

One level drops players into a factory mid-demolition, then hands them a device that rewinds time — walls rebuild, catwalks reappear, fire retreats — letting a player walk across a collapsing structure by running backward through its own destruction.

Priests called Luperci slaughtered goats, cut strips from the hides, smeared sacrificial blood on two boys' faces, then ran naked through Rome striking every woman they passed. February. Every year.

On Oblivion's 2006 launch day, a modder released a nude patch that worked perfectly — because Bethesda had shipped the fully modeled naked body meshes on the disc, just hidden under underwear textures.

A small boy in a cardboard crown discovers a kingdom and builds it not by conquering, but by politely knocking on doors and asking residents — farmers, bakers, warriors — if they'd like to help. They usually say yes.

Abramović placed 72 objects on a table — razor, wine, loaded pistol — and let strangers use them on her body for six hours. By hour three, someone had pressed the gun to her temple.

Eight Chicago White Sox players were paid by gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series — then played the following full season undetected. Shoeless Joe Jackson, who batted .375 in the fixed series, was banned for life.

Raddulan Sahiron commands Abu Sayyaf with one arm — the other lost to combat — and has carried a $1 million U.S. State Department bounty since 2002. He has evaded capture for over two decades in Sulu.