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Albert von Le Coq dismantled Kizil's painted cave walls with bread knives and shipped the slabs to Berlin in wooden crates — where Allied bombs destroyed most of them in 1943.

Voltaire scrawled 'absurd' across his personal Bible hundreds of times, then predicted Christianity would be extinct within a century. His Geneva house became a Bible Society depot 50 years after his death.

NSA's stolen EternalBlue exploit encrypted 80,000 NHS devices in May 2017, forcing British hospitals to turn away ambulances. The kill switch was found by a 22-year-old researcher who registered a $10.69 domain.

To swing a 1984 county election in Oregon, Rajneeshees poured salmonella cultures onto ten restaurant salad bars, sickening 751 people — the first bioterror attack on U.S. soil. The plot was conceived by Ma Anand Sheela.

The common swift lives its entire adult life in the air — sleeping, mating, and moulting on the wing — touching ground only to nest. It may fly two million kilometres in a lifetime without once choosing to land.

The entire world of this 2007 JRPG is the fever dream Frédéric Chopin experienced while dying of tuberculosis in 1849. Every dungeon boss is a real Chopin composition. He narrates his own hallucinated death.

Manhattan's mass compressed into two kilometers: a neutron star's surface gravity is 200 billion times Earth's, turning atoms into nuclear paste. What exactly is left when matter can't get any denser?

Tim Cridland skewers steel rods through his cheeks, throat, and abdomen onstage before live audiences — nerve conduction tests confirm he genuinely feels nothing where the rods enter.

Michael Dillon, the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty in 1946, later vanished from British society entirely — resurfacing in a Tibetan monastery, ordained as a Buddhist monk, having shed every identity the West assigned him.