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Mel Fisher searched 16 years for the Nuestra Señora de Atocha; three days before his crew found 40 tons of silver, his son Kane drowned when a salvage boat capsized.

Ciskei Defence Force soldiers opened fire on 80,000 ANC marchers inside a soccer stadium in Bisho on 7 September 1992, killing 29 and wounding 200. The soldiers fired from behind a low fence as the crowd ran.

At Isandlwana, January 1879, 1,300 British regulars were annihilated by a Zulu force of 20,000 — partly because a quartermaster refused to issue reserve ammunition without the proper paperwork.

Maradona punched the ball into England's net with his left fist in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal, then told reporters God's hand had done it. Argentina won 2–1 and went on to lift the trophy.

The pygmy slow loris is the only primate with a venomous bite — it licks a brachial gland on its arm, mixes toxin with saliva, and delivers a bite that can trigger anaphylactic shock.

Coney Island's Topsy, a circus elephant who had killed three men, was electrocuted before 1,500 paying spectators on January 4, 1903. Thomas Edison's company filmed it. The footage survives.

Jim Jones called it 'Revolutionary Suicide.' In a Guyanese jungle on November 18, 1978, 918 people died — 304 of them children — drinking cyanide-laced punch. The vats were prepared in advance.

In Endless Ocean: Blue World, a player could hover beside a great white shark and hum softly through the controller's microphone until the shark slowed, turned, and drifted away peaceful. Kindness as the only mechanic.

French presidents draped napkins over their heads to eat ortolan buntings whole — bones, organs, beak — hiding the act from God's sight. Mitterrand ate two at his final meal, eight days before he died.