Project Ozma

Predjama Castle

A cannibal feast on Tanna , Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889

Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"

Skydiver Bill Booth 's second rule states that "The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order to keep the fatality rate constant."

In April 1960, Frank Drake aimed the 85-foot Green Bank telescope at Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani for six hours a day and heard nothing but a passing aircraft. He called it Project Ozma.

Predjama Castle

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.

Diego Maradona

Maradona punched the ball into England's net with his left fist in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final, then credited 'the Hand of God.' He scored the century's greatest goal four minutes later in the same match.

Shahrbaraz

Shahrbaraz took Jerusalem in 614, hauled the True Cross to Ctesiphon, occupied Egypt — then murdered Emperor Khosrow II and ruled Persia for exactly 40 days before his own officers cut him down.

Titanfall 2

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.

Cannibalism in Oceania

Pacific Islander cannibals called human flesh 'long pig' — not metaphor, but olfactory report: it smelled indistinguishable from roasting pork. The term traveled back to Europe in 19th-century missionary journals.

Allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War

China charged the U.S. with dropping plague-infected fleas and cholera-laced clams over North Korea in 1952. Twenty-five captured American airmen confessed. Every confession was later recanted. The insects remain unresolved.

1995 Tour de France

In 1995, Casartelli's skull cracked on a roadside concrete block during stage 15; he was dead before the helicopter landed. The race continued. Miguel Induráin won overall in silence.

Risk compensation

After seatbelt laws passed, Sam Peltzman measured the data: drivers sped up and followed closer, killing roughly the same number of car occupants — but significantly more pedestrians and cyclists.