Leon Black

The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

Anti-immigrant protesters in Calais hold a sign in French reading "Diversity is a code word for white genocide", above a banner calling for remigration (8 November 2015).

A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…

Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million in fees for 'tax advice,' then resigned as Apollo's CEO the day the math became public. The firm he built manages $500 billion. The advice cost more than most countries' GDP per capita.

Tulsa race massacre

Greenwood, Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street,' burned for 18 hours in June 1921 while residents fired back from rooftops. Over 1,200 homes were destroyed. The official death toll was never confirmed — possibly 300.

National Ignition Facility

192 lasers converge on a target smaller than a pencil eraser, briefly creating temperatures hotter than the sun's core. In 2022, NIF finally got more energy out than it put in.

2008 Mumbai attacks

Ten men from Lashkar-e-Taiba landed by inflatable dinghy in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, killing 166 people across twelve sites over sixty hours. One attacker was captured alive and hanged four years later.

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney woke one morning in 1964 with a full melody in his head, rushed to the piano, and spent weeks playing it for strangers to confirm he hadn't stolen it. The song became 'Yesterday' — recorded by over 2,200 artists.

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

By 1923, a single egg cost 80 billion marks; workers were paid twice daily so wages didn't lose value before lunch. The wheelbarrow was worth more than the cash inside it.

White genocide conspiracy theory

A claim of white genocide in South Africa — built on disputed murder statistics from Afrikaner advocacy sites — migrated from Boer forums to Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, cited by name before the Christchurch massacre.

Tulip mania

In 1637 Amsterdam, a single Semper Augustus tulip bulb sold for 10,000 guilders — enough to buy a canal house. Within three months the market collapsed; bulbs sold for the price of onions.

Night Trap

In December 1993, Night Trap was held up in a US Senate hearing alongside Mortal Kombat; Senator Joe Lieberman called it filth, and within a year the ESRB existed, rating every game sold in America.