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Egil Skallagrímsson committed his first killing at age seven with an axe at a ball game. He later composed a poem so good it talked an enemy king out of executing him.

Eric Booker, 400 pounds, ate 49 glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts in 8 minutes for a world record. He also holds records in matzo balls and pulled pork. He is a New York City subway conductor.

J. Paul Getty — then the world's richest man — refused his grandson's ransom until a severed ear arrived by post. He negotiated the $17 million demand down to $2.2 million, the maximum he could deduct on taxes.

He blinded 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners and sent them home in columns of a hundred, each led by one man with a single eye. Tsar Samuel collapsed and died of shock two days later.

He sliced open his own abdomen, was sewn up by a doctor, then tore the stitches out with bare hands. Cato the Younger refused Caesar's pardon not once but twice — from the inside.

A Czech church decorated with 40,000 human skeletons arranged into chandeliers, garlands, and a coat of arms — all assembled by a half-blind monk in 1870. The bones had to come from somewhere.

In April 1892, Wyoming cattle barons hired twenty-five Texas gunmen and invaded Johnson County to assassinate two men on a hit list. They killed both, then got pinned down at the KC Ranch until the U.S. Army rescued them.

Nintendo packed a cheap plastic steering wheel into every Mario Kart Wii box, and 37 million families snapped it around their Wii remotes — suddenly the living room floor was a race circuit and everyone had a wheel.

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.