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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

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276 children died at Jonestown. The vat of Flavor Aid — not Kool-Aid — was found still full. Cyanide reached the bloodstream in under five minutes. Aerial photos showed bodies arranged in concentric rings.

Gödel proved in 1931 that any system strong enough to do arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove. Mathematics cannot certify its own foundations. The proof fits in a single paper published at age 25.

Hattusa's double walls included sphinx-flanked gates and a vaulted underground tunnel — not for escape but for ritual processions — built by a civilization that negotiated history's first surviving peace treaty.

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.

Twenty-one women artists gutted an abandoned Hollywood mansion in 1972, turning each room into a staged female nightmare — one lined entirely with fried-egg ceramics evoking fried breasts. Whose domestic life were they actually describing?

In 2007, two teenagers in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine filmed themselves beating a homeless man to death with hammers and a pipe over several minutes. The video, called '3 Guys 1 Hammer,' leaked online and became one of the most viewed snuff films in history.

Fumito Ueda pinned a single photograph of a boy and girl holding hands to his office wall, then spent four years at Sony Japan building an entire game backward from that image — with no combat, no inventory, just the grip.

South Africa's most beloved cricket captain Hansie Cronje confessed he fixed matches partly for a leather jacket. The man who led his country's post-apartheid sporting resurrection died in a plane crash two years later.

Cacareco, a four-year-old female rhinoceros at the São Paulo zoo, received 100,000 votes in the 1959 city council election — more than any human candidate — apparently written in by voters exhausted with corruption.