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Harlequins winger Tom Williams bit a fake blood capsule to fake an injury; team physio Steph Brennan then sliced his lip with a scalpel to cover it up. A doctor lost her medical license over a substitution rule.

Titus, who destroyed Jerusalem's Temple in 70 AD, wept on any evening he'd performed no act of generosity, reportedly saying, 'Friends, I have lost a day.' He reigned only two years before dying at 41.

Albert von Le Coq dismantled Kizil's painted cave walls with bread knives and shipped the slabs to Berlin in wooden crates — where Allied bombs destroyed most of them in 1943.

Aerogel is 99.8% air by volume, yet a thumbnail-sized block supports a 2.5 kg brick. NASA's Mars Pathfinder used it as insulation; the same material can be made from silica, carbon, or even frozen fruit juice.

Joel-Peter Witkin sources severed heads and amputated limbs from morgues, arranges them with live models into Caravaggio-style compositions, and photographs them. Mexican authorities gave him unclaimed cadavers. The prints sell for $10,000 each.

Under the Group Areas Act, apartheid bulldozed Cape Town's District Six — a jazz-loud, mosque-and-church neighbourhood of sixty thousand people — and relocated them to sand flats twelve miles away. The rubble sat empty for decades.

In 1965 Pakistan infiltrated 30,000 fighters into Kashmir under Operation Gibraltar, dressed as locals. The Kashmiris, meant to rise in welcome, reported the strangers to Indian authorities instead. The operation collapsed in weeks.

When the Flor de la Mar sank off Sumatra in 1511, it took four elephant-loads of Malaccan royal gold with it — the largest prize Afonso de Albuquerque ever seized. The wreck's location remains disputed.

Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, was placed on a presidential kill list, denied due process in U.S. courts, and killed by CIA drone in Yemen in September 2011. His lawyers were told they needed a license to represent him.