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Bosch's Hell panel shows a bird-headed demon enthroned on a toilet, devouring humans and defecating them as souls into a transparent pit. He painted this around 1500, hung it in a palace, and died unexplained.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, treaded water off New Guinea for hours in 1961 before swimming toward shore. The Asmat people there practiced ritual cannibalism.

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted roughly thirty seconds and fired thirty shots on October 26, 1881. Three of the four men who died had not yet drawn their weapons when the Earps opened fire.

Mont Ventoux's summit is bare white limestone — no trees, no shade above 1,800 metres. Simpson died here in 1967; Chris Froome ran up it on foot in 2016 after his bike shattered on a crash.

Ehud Barak wore a wig and dress into Beirut, walked upstairs, and shot PLO commanders Abu Iyad and Kamal Adwan in their own apartments. The future prime minister was also the makeup artist.

He rose ten cubits off the ground — glowing gold — while his students watched twice. A Syrian Neoplatonist who made ritual magic philosophically respectable. What do you do with a man who keeps floating?