Unit 100

Plot of Weierstrass function over the interval [ − 2, 2]. Like some other fractals , the function exhibits self-similarity : every zoom (red circle) is similar to the global plot.

Poster symbolizing the Ele Não Movement.

Coat of arms of the Indies Company, with the reclining figure representing the Mississippi River taken from Law's Compagnie d'Occident , and the motto Florebo quocumque ferar taken from Louis XIV's East India Company

While Unit 731 experimented on humans, Unit 100 infected horses, cattle, and water supplies with anthrax, glanders, and sheep-pox — then measured how fast an army without animals collapses.

Selous Scouts

Selous Scouts wore enemy uniforms, carried captured weapons, and infiltrated guerrilla camps before calling in fire on themselves. Their pseudo-operations killed an estimated 68% of all insurgents eliminated in the Rhodesian Bush War.

Weierstrass function

Weierstrass wrote down a function in 1872 that draws a continuous curve — no gaps, no jumps — yet has no defined slope at any single point. Every zoom reveals more jaggedness. It shouldn't exist; it does.

Plague (disease)

Unit 731 maintained plague-flea breeding facilities producing 3 kilograms of fleas per week — roughly 45 million fleas — enough to seed an epidemic across a mid-sized city in a single sortie.

Operation Biting

British paratroopers landed on a French clifftop, dismantled a Würzburg radar dish under German fire, and carried its components back to England — handing scientists a device that changed the air war in six months.

Controversies surrounding Jair Bolsonaro

On the Senate floor, Bolsonaro told Senator Maria do Rosário she was 'not worth raping' — then, as president, publicly praised the colonel who tortured her during Brazil's military dictatorship.

Sugar glider

American mall vendors sell sugar gliders inside warm chest-pocket pouches for up to $500 each; isolated from colony mates, many self-mutilate — gnawing their own limbs down to bone.

Flor de la Mar

When the Flor de la Mar sank off Sumatra in 1511, it took four elephant-loads of Malaccan royal gold with it — the largest prize Afonso de Albuquerque ever seized. The wreck's location remains disputed.

John Law's Company

John Law — a Scottish gambler who killed a man in a duel — convinced France to replace gold with paper backed by Louisiana swampland. Within two years, the word 'millionaire' was coined, then the crash.