Tsutomu Miyazaki

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Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016)

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Tsutomu Miyazaki killed four girls aged four to seven near Tokyo between 1988 and 1989, ate one victim's hands, and mailed her charred bones to her family in a box with photographs. Police found 5,763 videotapes stacked in his room.

IC 814 was hijacked on Christmas Eve 1999 and held on a Kandahar tarmac for eight days; one passenger was stabbed to death. India freed three militants, one of whom later helped plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Dawn Brancheau, SeaWorld Orlando's most senior trainer, was pulled into the water and killed by orca Tilikum in front of an audience on February 24, 2010. She had 16 years of experience. The show had just ended.

Body Worlds exhibits real human cadavers with skin removed, posed mid-stride or holding their own lungs — over 47 million visitors have paid to walk among them since 1995.

Ocaña led Eddy Merckx by 9 minutes — the greatest gap in Tour history — when a Pyrenean thunderstorm dissolved the road under him in 1971. He crashed; Merckx refused to wear yellow the next day.

At the Battle of Plassey in 1757, Bengali commander Mir Jafar kept 45,000 soldiers idle while Clive's 3,000 British troops routed the Nawab. In exchange, he was installed as Nawab — and Britain began absorbing a continent.

Jón Gnarr promised Reykjavík voters a polar bear, free bus rides for respectful teenagers, and a 'vegan option on Thursdays' — then served a full mayoral term, governing a city of 120,000 with genuine competence.

Javed Iqbal dissolved 100 boys in vats of acid in Lahore, then mailed a handwritten confession and a diary to police. He was sentenced to be killed by acid in the same vat — a sentence never carried out.

Commandos raided the Norwegian Lofoten Islands and sailed home with fish oil, 228 prisoners — and an Enigma machine complete with rotors, recovered from a sinking German trawler before it went under.