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Tyr and Fenrir (1911) by John Bauer

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Tyr placed his sword hand inside the wolf Fenrir's jaws as a pledge of good faith — knowing the gods were lying. The wolf bit it off. He remains the god of justice.

The Xoloitzcuintli — hairless, wrinkled, warm to the touch — was bred by Aztecs to escort dead souls through Mictlan's nine treacherous underworld levels. Owners were buried alongside them. The breed is over 3,500 years old.

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.

Custer split his 700-man 7th Cavalry into three columns at Little Bighorn, then led 210 men in a direct charge against a Lakota-Cheyenne encampment later estimated at 1,500–2,000 warriors. Not one of his column survived.

Tsutomu Miyazaki killed four girls aged four to seven near Tokyo between 1988 and 1989, ate one victim's hands, and mailed her charred bones to her family in a box with photographs. Police found 5,763 videotapes stacked in his room.

45 SAS men landed on Pebble Island in the Falklands dark, placed demolition charges on eleven Argentine aircraft, and were back at sea in 30 minutes — before the garrison knew they'd arrived.

In December 1993, Night Trap was held up in a US Senate hearing alongside Mortal Kombat; Senator Joe Lieberman called it filth, and within a year the ESRB existed, rating every game sold in America.

Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam ran Ethiopia's Red Terror from 1977 to 1978, killing between 30,000 and 750,000 citizens; families of the executed were billed for the bullets used in the executions.

The greatest tactical mind of his era — a man who beat Rome repeatedly — was killed by a clay roof tile hurled by an anonymous old woman from a balcony in Argos. He was 46.