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A 13th-century Czech chapel holds chandeliers, coats of arms, and garland decorations made entirely from approximately 40,000 human skeletons. A woodcarver named František Rint signed his name in the corner — in bones.

Gabriel's Horn — the surface generated by rotating y=1/x — holds exactly π cubic units of paint, yet its inner wall has infinite area. Pour the paint in; it fills. Try to coat the walls; you never finish.

In Endless Ocean: Blue World, a player could hover beside a great white shark and hum softly through the controller's microphone until the shark slowed, turned, and drifted away peaceful. Kindness as the only mechanic.

Robert Hanssen attended Mass every morning, carried a rosary, and sold the FBI's deepest secrets to Moscow for 22 years. He betrayed at least three Soviet double agents who were subsequently executed.

He rose ten cubits off the ground — glowing gold — while his students watched twice. A Syrian Neoplatonist who made ritual magic philosophically respectable. What do you do with a man who keeps floating?

Braid's final level reverses time to reveal the princess the player has been chasing is not a captive — she is running from the player. The epilogue text identifies her as the atomic bomb. Jonathan Blow hid this in 2008.

Prime Minister Cánovas del Castillo received a bouquet of flowers from Cecilio Domínguez — and a bullet. The pistol hidden among the stems ended Spain's 1897 summer. Who taught an anarchist the etiquette of assassination?

Bugsy Siegel was reading the Los Angeles Times on a sofa in Beverly Hills when a rifle bullet blew his right eye out of its socket — landing four feet away on the floor.

A spectator's fist on the Puy-de-Dôme cracked Eddy Merckx's cheekbone during the 1975 Tour — the blow that broke the greatest cyclist alive and handed Bernard Thévenet the race.