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The Boeremag plotted to poison Johannesburg's water supply, detonate bombs across the country, and install a Boer republic — twenty-two men were eventually convicted in South Africa's longest treason trial.

Rare's 1997 Nintendo 64 cartridge shipped a four-player split-screen world that hadn't existed in any home console before it — the dam, the facility, the cradle — turning a Bond film into a geography that an entire generation memorized.

In 2017, Hapilon's ISIS-aligned Abu Sayyaf faction and the Maute group held Marawi — a Philippine city of 200,000 — for 154 days. The military retook it building by building; most of the city was leveled in the process.

The limestone blocks at Mycenae's walls weigh up to 6 tonnes each, fitted without mortar across a circuit that stood 900 years before the Greeks of Thucydides's era declared their ancestors could not have built it.

NSA's stolen EternalBlue exploit encrypted 80,000 NHS devices in May 2017, forcing British hospitals to turn away ambulances. The kill switch was found by a 22-year-old researcher who registered a $10.69 domain.

Michael Dillon, the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty in 1946, later vanished from British society entirely — resurfacing in a Tibetan monastery, ordained as a Buddhist monk, having shed every identity the West assigned him.

The Taichang Emperor reigned 29 days before dying — reportedly after swallowing red pills supplied by a court official named Li Kezhuo, whose formula was never fully disclosed.

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.

A $2.4 billion telescope was stopped cold by Native Hawaiian protectors on Mauna Kea — elevation 4,205 meters, home of 13 existing observatories and a mountain the Kanaka Maoli consider a living ancestor.