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Acker lifted pages of Dickens verbatim, inserted orgies and gang rapes, and called it literary theory. Arrested for obscenity in the UK in 1984; the charges were dropped.

David Koresh declared himself the 'Final Sinful Messiah' and took 'spiritual wives' as young as twelve. He stockpiled 300 weapons inside Mount Carmel. The 51-day ATF siege ended in fire: 76 dead.

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.

Diplodocus's tail ended in a thin whip-tip that could break the sound barrier — a 45-foot bullwhip cracking a sonic boom, possibly the loudest sound made by any land animal.

Gustav Landauer, Germany's foremost anarchist philosopher, was stomped and shot by soldiers in a Munich prison courtyard on May 2, 1919. His last book on Shakespeare was still unfinished. Philosophy ended with a boot.

He blinded 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners and sent them home in columns of a hundred, each led by one man with a single eye. Tsar Samuel collapsed and died of shock two days later.

Recorded in 2005 on an Access Hollywood bus, Trump told host Billy Bush he grabs women 'by the pussy' without asking. Released eleven days before the election, it moved no needle.

In 1952, Rosalind Franklin produced Photo 51 — the clearest X-ray of DNA's helix ever taken; her colleague Maurice Wilkins showed it to James Watson without her knowledge, and Watson and Crick won the 1962 Nobel.

Saladin personally beheaded Raynald of Châtillon after the battle, then offered water to the captured King of Jerusalem — and withdrew it. The True Cross was captured and never returned. Crusader Palestine died here.