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SOE agents slipped into Spanish-controlled Fernando Poo, chloroformed harbour watchmen, threw grappling irons onto three Axis ships, and towed them into international waters — a neutral nation's port robbed without a shot fired.

Zebb Quinn, 18, vanished after a late-night work errand in January 2000. His car turned up days later with a live puppy inside and a lipstick kiss on the rear window. His coworker Robert Jason Owens was convicted 17 years later.

A Czech church decorated with 40,000 human skeletons arranged into chandeliers, garlands, and a coat of arms — all assembled by a half-blind monk in 1870. The bones had to come from somewhere.

Garry Turner stretched his stomach skin 15.8 cm — nearly six inches — away from his body in a tent-like pull, caused by Ehlers-Danlos syndrome dissolving the collagen that holds skin down.

Abramović placed 72 objects on a table — razor, wine, loaded pistol — and let strangers use them on her body for six hours. By hour three, someone had pressed the gun to her temple.

Unit 731 maintained plague-flea breeding facilities producing 3 kilograms of fleas per week — roughly 45 million fleas — enough to seed an epidemic across a mid-sized city in a single sortie.

Emperor at 14, Elagabalus installed a black meteorite as Rome's supreme god, married a Vestal Virgin, reportedly offered physicians a fortune to give him female genitalia, and was dead at 18.

Shot in the head by a Taliban gunman on a school bus in 2012, Malala Yousafzai was airlifted to Birmingham, received reconstructive surgery, and was back in class ten months later — at age sixteen — in the same city.

A spectator's fist on the Puy-de-Dôme cracked Eddy Merckx's cheekbone during the 1975 Tour — the blow that broke the greatest cyclist alive and handed Bernard Thévenet the race.