Apicius

The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine

The "Xiaohe Mummy", exhibited in Xinjiang Museum, is one of the oldest Tarim mummies, dating more than 3800 years ago. Another mummy from the same place is the " Princess of Xiaohe ".

Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

Marcus Gavius Apicius spent a fortune building Rome's most extravagant culinary reputation, then calculated his remaining wealth and drank poison — the reduced budget made life not worth living.

Aldi

Brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht split their German grocery chain in 1961 along the Ruhr River — one taking the north, one the south — and never reconciled. Two global empires grew from a single family silence.

Hit 'Em Up

On a 1996 Death Row single, Tupac claimed to have slept with Faith Evans — Biggie's wife — while Biggie was alive. He said it over his own label's production, for all radio to hear.

WannaCry ransomware attack

NSA's stolen EternalBlue exploit encrypted 80,000 NHS devices in May 2017, forcing British hospitals to turn away ambulances. The kill switch was found by a 22-year-old researcher who registered a $10.69 domain.

Tarim mummies

Xinjiang's Tarim Basin gave up Bronze Age mummies with red and blonde hair, plaid textiles, and features no one expected in 2nd-millennium-BCE China — their genetic origin is still genuinely contested.

Battle of Zama

Hannibal brought 80 war elephants to Zama in 202 BCE. Scipio opened lanes in his formation and the Romans blew trumpets — the elephants panicked, reversed, and crushed Hannibal's own cavalry. Rome won the Second Punic War in that moment.

Book of Jonah

Jonah, swallowed by a fish, sulks when God spares the city he hated — and then weeps over a dead plant. Scholars now classify it as deliberate comic fiction targeting 5th-century Jewish nationalism.

Utahraptor

Utahraptor weighed as much as a grizzly bear and carried a 9-inch hooked claw on each foot — the weapon that made Jurassic Park's Velociraptors look like the timid cousins they actually were.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

In 'Death from Above,' the player inhabits a soldier already struck by a nuclear blast, dragging themselves across rubble, unable to stand. No HUD. No objective marker. The level ends when the character dies — and it always ends that way.