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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.

Casu martzu is Sardinian pecorino colonized by live cheese fly larvae; the maggots leap up to 15 centimeters when disturbed. EU law bans its sale, so it trades on the black market.

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.

Mithridates VI ingested measured poisons daily for decades to build immunity, then waged 46 years of war against Rome. When he finally tried to poison himself at defeat, the doses failed. He had to beg a soldier to run him through.

45 SAS men landed on Pebble Island in the Falklands dark, placed demolition charges on eleven Argentine aircraft, and were back at sea in 30 minutes — before the garrison knew they'd arrived.

In 2017, Hapilon's ISIS-aligned Abu Sayyaf faction and the Maute group held Marawi — a Philippine city of 200,000 — for 154 days. The military retook it building by building; most of the city was leveled in the process.

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.

Travis, a 200-pound chimpanzee raised as a human child in Stamford, Connecticut, mauled neighbor Charla Nash in 2009, leaving her without a face or hands. His owner called 911 mid-attack, saying: 'He's eating her.'

Thomas Paine dismantled the Bible verse by verse from a Paris prison cell in 1793, fully expecting the guillotine. The chalk mark on his cell door was drawn on the wrong side by accident.