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The Year of Shared Sacrifice
Right before being shot at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Union General John Sedgwick confidently declared that the enemy "couldn't hit an elephant at this" distance, usually phrased as this 5-letter word.
Range
This director's parents randomly bricked up his childhood bedroom windows, leaving only tiny slits for light—a stark background that perfectly explains his signature dark, gothic filmmaking style.
Tim Burton
In 1780, Italian physicist Luigi Galvani accidentally discovered "animal electricity" when his scalpel touched a spark and caused the severed leg of this creature to twitch wildly.
Frog
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A massive storage tank of a sweet sticky substance burst in Boston's North End, sending a 25-foot-tall wave of sticky syrup rushing through the streets at 35 mph, killing 21 people and injuring 150.
The great molasses flood
Hours before his ship struck an iceberg in 1912, Captain Edward Smith famously stated that he could not imagine any condition which would cause a ship to do this.
Sink
As a child, this master of horror watched his friend get struck and killed by a train; while he claims he has no memory of the event, trains and gruesome deaths became recurring themes in his massive bibliography.
Stephen King
In 1953, the CIA launched this notorious, covert mind-control program that fed LSD to unwitting citizens, leading to psychological breakdowns and at least one covered-up death.
MK Ultra
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A giant wooden vat of a liquid ruptured , causing a chain reaction that smashed other vats. Over 300,000 gallons of the liquid flooded the surrounding slums, drowning 8 people.
The london beer flood
Joan Vollmer reportedly told her husband, this famous Beat Generation author of Naked Lunch, "I'm not looking," right before he tragically misfired a gun during a drunken "William Tell" routine.
William S. Burroughs
this author survived a horrific, abusive boarding school run by a headmaster who was later legally certified as insane and sent to an asylum.
C.S. Lewis
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world in the 1950s by successfully using radical vascular surgery to create a living, breathing version of this mythological beast out of dogs.
Cerberus
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A non-bloody confrontation between the United States and British authorities in the San Juan Islands triggered entirely by a single American farmer shooting a British-owned pig that was rooting in his garden.
The Pig War
Just before his execution via firing squad in 1963, French conspirator Jean Bastien-Thiry remarked that his executioners wouldn't aim straight because they were this type of doting relative to him.
Godfather
When he was 12, this author’s father was sent to a debtors' prison, forcing the boy to work 10 hours a day pasting labels on jars in a rat-infested blacking factory.
Charles Dickens
To prove yellow fever wasn't contagious, 19th-century doctor Stubbins Ffirth went to extreme, stomach-churning lengths by drinking and rubbing this specific bodily fluid from patients into his open wounds.
Vomit
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An inexplicable event in Bath County, Kentucky, where chunks of red meat (believed to be beef or venison) rained down from a clear sky over a patch of land.
The kentucky meat shower
Moments before the catastrophic 1986 space shuttle disaster, pilot Michael J. Smith uttered this final, brief 4-letter phrase of technical concern caught on the operational recorder.
Uh Oh
his psychological master was once locked in a jail cell for five minutes by a local policeman at his father's request to "teach him what happens to naughty boys," creating a lifelong, paralyzing phobia of police.
Alfred Hitchcock
In 1920, psychologist John B. Watson behaviorally conditioned a healthy 9-month-old infant known as "Little" this to have a paralyzing, lifelong phobia of furry white rats and Santa Claus masks.
Little Albert