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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

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Mookie Wilson's routine grounder rolled through Bill Buckner's legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, scoring Ray Knight and handing the Mets a win. Boston had been one out from their first title since 1918.

Worth $100 million in 1900, Hetty Green wore the same black dress until it rotted and allegedly refused a surgeon's fee for her son Ned's infected leg — he lost the limb. She ate cold oatmeal to avoid heating it.

Jan Morris filed the dispatch announcing Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 Everest summit for The Times of London — then, twenty years later, completed her transition, and wrote 'Conundrum,' one of the most celebrated memoirs of the twentieth century.

Isao Machii, a modern iaijutsu master, sliced a 200 mph BB pellet clean in two mid-air — his sword completing the cut before his conscious brain could have processed the pellet's position.

Acconci hid under a gallery ramp, masturbating and whispering sexual fantasies at the footsteps overhead — the whole act transmitted through speakers. The gallery was Sonnabend, 1972. His target was whoever paused.

A tribune of the plebs could not be touched — his body consecrated by oath so that killing him was a religious act, not a crime. Tiberius Gracchus died anyway, beaten with a broken bench leg.

Jonah, swallowed by a fish, sulks when God spares the city he hated — and then weeps over a dead plant. Scholars now classify it as deliberate comic fiction targeting 5th-century Jewish nationalism.

Between 1986 and 1989, eight people were found dead along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia — four pairs, different methods, zero suspects charged. The FBI has never closed the case; the killer may have posed as law enforcement.

Herzog boiled and ate his own shoe — with garlic and duck fat — after Errol Morris finished a film Herzog bet he never would. The documentary of the meal runs 28 minutes. He called the shoe "quite acceptable."