Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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A thermite mixture using iron(III) oxide

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

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At 19, aboard a steamship to England, Chandrasekhar calculated that stars above 1.4 solar masses must collapse catastrophically. Arthur Eddington publicly mocked him; 52 years later, the Nobel committee agreed with the teenager.

Emperor Xian reigned for thirty-one years as Cao Cao's hostage. He watched Cao Cao personally drag Empress Fu from her chambers and execute her inside the palace walls in 214 CE.

Once ignited, thermite burns at 2,500 °C — hot enough to melt through an engine block — and pouring water on it accelerates the reaction. The military uses it to destroy their own equipment.

Taken from Albania as a child hostage, raised as an Ottoman janissary, Skanderbeg defected at 38 with three hundred men and held off the full Ottoman army 25 times over 25 years.

Gliders scraped to a halt on a French bridge in complete darkness at 0016 on June 6, 1944 — Major John Howard's men were inside the German wire before the garrison heard a sound.

Tino De Angelis filled vast New Jersey tanks mostly with seawater, floated a thin film of soybean oil on top for inspectors, and borrowed $175 million against it. The 1963 collapse took down two Wall Street firms in a single afternoon.

Preciado injected black-market testosterone daily while writing 'Testo Junkie,' using his own body as the laboratory. Philosophy as self-experiment: what happens when the theorist becomes the specimen?

Every single element — Kirby, enemies, clouds, mountains — is stitched from actual yarn, and no matter what hits him, Kirby simply unravels and gets sewn back together. Invincibility never looked so cozy.

Bokassa spent $22 million — one-third of the Central African Empire's annual budget — on a coronation modeled on Napoleon's, including a throne cast as a two-ton golden eagle, while France quietly paid the bill.