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Ten canoeists paddled in pairs into Bordeaux harbour at night and limpet-mined six ships. Eight were captured or drowned; the two survivors walked 100 miles to Spain. Hitler's Commando Order had the eight shot.

A wooden dasher plunged up and down by hand for forty unbroken minutes to produce one pound of butter. The task fell to whoever was smallest — usually the children.

Eugene de Kock commanded Vlakplaas, a death squad that killed, dismembered, and barbecued victims' remains to destroy evidence — his own men called him 'Prime Evil' before prosecutors did.

Eisriesenwelt stretches 42 kilometres into the Austrian Alps — the world's largest accessible ice cave — where wind racing through the entrance freezes meltwater into towers and archways that survive year-round despite mild summers above.

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.

One baby Scipionyx, dead 113 million years ago, still holds its liver, intestines, and windpipe in anatomical position. It is the only dinosaur fossil with soft organs visible to the naked eye.

Betty Dodson ran 'Bodysex' workshops in her Manhattan apartment from the 1970s onward — circles of naked women masturbating together while she coached technique. She was 87 when she ran her last one.

Foucault spent his last years cruising San Francisco bathhouses while dying of AIDS — a fact he reportedly knew. The man who said power invented sexuality lived the argument to its end.

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.