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India detonated five nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert over forty-eight hours in May 1998 — and the CIA, with satellites overhead, saw nothing until the shockwaves were measured. Pakistan matched them sixteen days later.

The entire world of this 2007 JRPG is the fever dream Frédéric Chopin experienced while dying of tuberculosis in 1849. Every dungeon boss is a real Chopin composition. He narrates his own hallucinated death.

Daniel Drew fed his cattle salt before driving them to market, then let them drink until bloated — inflating the weighed price. He applied the same trick to Erie Railroad stock certificates, flooding the market to crush rivals.

Leonarda Cianciulli boiled three women into soap and stirred their fat into teacakes she served to neighbors in Correggio. Her motive: she believed human sacrifice would protect her son from dying in World War II.

In 1848, a 3.5-cm iron tamping rod blasted through Phineas Gage's left cheekbone and out the top of his skull. He survived, walked to a cart — and became an entirely different man.

British War Secretary John Profumo shared a mistress, 19-year-old Christine Keeler, with Soviet naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov — then lied about it to Parliament. The lie cost him his career; the affair may have cost Britain state secrets.

The Turnspit dog — short-legged, long-bodied, now extinct — ran hamster-wheel treadmills bolted to kitchen walls for hours, rotating roasting joints. They worked in pairs, swapping shifts. By 1900, the breed had been deleted from existence.

In 1951, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins took a biopsy from Henrietta Lacks's cervix without telling her; her cells, labeled HeLa, became the first immortal human cell line, now totaling over 20 metric tons grown worldwide.

North Korea's 105-story pyramid hotel has been under construction since 1987, was capped in 1992, and has never hosted a single guest — its empty windows visible from Pyongyang for 30 years like a concrete tombstone.