Men Behind the Sun

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Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) [ clarification needed ]

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Director T.F. Mous used an actual child's corpse — sourced from a local hospital — for a dissection scene. Chinese censors banned it; Hong Kong screened it. The corpse is in the frame.

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.

Ninety tins of Piero Manzoni's sealed feces sit in museum collections worldwide. Tin No. 083 sold for €275,000 in 2022 — worth more per gram than gold, exactly as Manzoni priced it in 1961.

On June 10, 1951, nineteen-year-old Marine Corporal Charles Abrell threw himself onto an enemy grenade in Korea, absorbing the blast entirely. His squad lived. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

Harlequins winger Tom Williams bit a fake blood capsule to fake an injury; team physio Steph Brennan then sliced his lip with a scalpel to cover it up. A doctor lost her medical license over a substitution rule.

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.

Halfway through a military shooter, the player learns the white phosphorus airstrike they just executed killed 47 civilians in a refugee camp — and the game made them do it. No other ending is available.

On the night of December 4, 1971, Indian missile boats fired Styx missiles into Karachi harbor, igniting Pakistan's main fuel depot. The harbor burned for seven days and lit the sky over a city of millions.

Tissaphernes invited ten thousand Greek mercenary officers to a feast, then had them seized and beheaded mid-meal — stranding the surviving rank-and-file 1,500 miles from home without leadership.