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The Reka River in Slovenia plunges underground and carves through 6 kilometres of limestone before disappearing entirely — reappearing 34 kilometres away, having hollowed out one of the largest underground canyons on the planet.

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.

In 'Rhythm 0,' Abramović lay passive for six hours while strangers chose from 72 objects — including a loaded gun and rose thorns — to do whatever they wished to her body. She was cut, kissed, and aimed at.

The Yippies hauled a 145-pound pig named Pigasus to Chicago's Grant Park in 1968 and held a formal press conference nominating him for president — police arrested both the pig and seven activists within minutes.

Ocaña led Eddy Merckx by 9 minutes — the greatest gap in Tour history — when a Pyrenean thunderstorm dissolved the road under him in 1971. He crashed; Merckx refused to wear yellow the next day.

Wilkie Collins drank laudanum by the tumbler — eventually enough to kill several men — and dictated two complete novels in states he later had no memory of. His housekeeper measured the doses. The manuscripts survived him.

Paleontologists named it 'Irritator' — formally, in the scientific literature — because a fossil smuggler had packed car body filler into the skull to counterfeit a complete specimen.

The Dalton gang attempted to rob two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks simultaneously on October 5, 1892. In the ensuing gunfight, four Daltons died in the street along with four townspeople — in roughly twelve minutes.

In 1971 Burden asked an assistant to shoot him in the left arm with a .22 rifle inside a Santa Ana garage. The bullet grazed the bone. The event lasted five seconds and was witnessed by a handful of people.