Hydrogen embrittlement

Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) [ clarification needed ]

01Winnie Mandela personally assaulted the abducted youths at her home before Jerry Richardson cut Stompie Seipei's throat with garden shears.
02The Methodist minister whose manse was raided, Paul Verryn, was falsely accused of sexual abuse by Winnie Mandela to justify the kidnapping.
03Despite her 1991 conviction, Winnie Mandela served as Deputy Minister of Arts in South Africa's first post-apartheid government in 1994.

A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China

"Queens" of Mysore : left, Krishnaraja Wadiyar III 's first wife, Devajammani has a discoloration around the mouth, thought to be due to the blowing of variolation dust in the nose ("nasal insufflation"). Right, his second wife shows the…

Hydrogen embrittlement

Single hydrogen atoms — the smallest possible — squeeze between steel's iron lattice and make the metal brittle without leaving any visible trace. Bridge cables, surgical implants, and submarine hulls have failed this way.

Winnie Mandela

Winnie Mandela's football club kidnapped fourteen-year-old Stompie Seipei and three other youths from a Methodist manse in December 1988. Stompie's throat was cut. Winnie Mandela was convicted; she remained a political force for thirty more years.

Briley brothers

James, Linwood, and Anthony Briley murdered 11 people across Richmond, Virginia, between 1971 and 1979 — then escaped from death row together in 1984, prompting a six-state manhunt that ended in Philadelphia six days later.

Bile bear

Bears on Chinese bile farms live for up to 25 years with permanent steel catheters punched through their abdomens, draining bile used in traditional medicine. Many develop liver cancer from the constant extraction.

Jean van de Velde (golfer)

Jean Van de Velde stood on the 18th hole of the 1999 Open Championship needing only a double bogey to win, then waded barefoot into the Barry Burn, made a seven, and lost in a playoff.

Variolation

Ottoman physicians rubbed smallpox scabs into children's skin scratches centuries before Jenner's vaccine. The practice cut mortality from roughly 30% to under 2%, yet Europe called it barbarism until the death tolls reversed.

Simmons Bedding Company

Simmons Bedding — maker of the Beautyrest mattress — was bought, loaded with debt, and sold seven times in a single generation of private equity deals, each time leaving workers with less and investors with more. The mattress never changed.

Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen's 1952 surgery in Copenhagen ran above the fold on the New York Daily News front page, displacing Korean War coverage — a former Army private from the Bronx who became the face of a possibility millions had never heard named.

Dai Andrews

Dai Andrews tilted his head back and fed 27 swords down his throat at once — a world record achieved with blades fanned like a steel bouquet. Each one is real.