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Iceland's Best Party ran on free towels at city pools, a polar bear for the zoo, and a promise to be 'the best party' — and won Reykjavík's city hall in 2010 with 34.7% of the vote.

The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $6 million in free food as Patty Hearst's ransom — then she picked up a rifle, renamed herself 'Tania,' and robbed a San Francisco bank with them 10 weeks later.

Ed Boon hid the fatality system inside Mortal Kombat's code as an undocumented secret, only revealing it after the arcade build was certified — his bosses at Midway never approved it before it hit machines.

On August 19, 1951, Eddie Gaedel — 3 feet 7 inches tall — batted for the St. Louis Browns in a real AL game, wearing number 1/8. He drew a four-pitch walk and was pulled immediately.

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.

Saladin personally beheaded Raynald of Châtillon after the battle, then offered water to the captured King of Jerusalem — and withdrew it. The True Cross was captured and never returned. Crusader Palestine died here.

Isaac Newton, who calculated planetary orbits, invested and withdrew from the South Sea Company in profit — then reinvested at the peak, losing £20,000. He reportedly said he could not calculate the madness of men.

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.

Fabio Casartelli died on Stage 15; the peloton rolled neutralized through Stage 16 the next morning, completing the course where he was killed — the race did not stop.