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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.

Bertelsmann printed millions of Nazi-era devotional books and Wehrmacht field hymnals during World War II, then commissioned a self-exonerating history in 1998. An independent commission contradicted it in full by 2002.

Ivan Lyon returned to Singapore on a second mission with folding kayaks and a plan to sink more ships. Japanese forces compromised the team; Lyon died armed on a rubber raft, never reaching shore.

Painted 36,000 years ago on a cave ceiling in northern Spain, the Altamira bison are so anatomically precise that 19th-century archaeologists accused the discoverer of fraud — they simply could not accept the ancients were capable.

In 'Death from Above,' the player inhabits a soldier already struck by a nuclear blast, dragging themselves across rubble, unable to stand. No HUD. No objective marker. The level ends when the character dies — and it always ends that way.

Soviet serial killer Nikolai Dzhumagaliev served human meat kebabs to guests at dinner parties in 1980s Kazakhstan, his metal front teeth gleaming. At least seven women were killed and partially eaten before a guest found a head in his fridge.

When Sasanian forces breached Dura-Europos's walls around 256 CE, they buried the city in rubble — accidentally preserving inside the walls a synagogue, a Mithraeum, and the world's oldest surviving Christian church murals.

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.

Egil Skallagrímsson committed his first killing at age seven with an axe at a ball game. He later composed a poem so good it talked an enemy king out of executing him.