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Herero and Nama Genocide - In 1904, Germany led thousands of natives in South West Africa to the desert where they died of dehydration, and subsequently imprisoned more in concentration camps. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Maguad Murders - Two sisters killed by their classmate/newly-adopted sibling (en.wikipedia.org)
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Death of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada - Declared missing and found 10 yrs later in an unlikely but common place (en.wikipedia.org)
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Risks of astronomical suffering, also called suffering risks or s-risks, are risks involving much more suffering than all that has occurred on Earth so far. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Albert Stevens - Man secretly injected with plutonium as an experiment because he was dying anyway -- except he wasn't dying (en.wikipedia.org)
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2015 TB145 - An asteroid that looked like a skull in radar images which passed Earth on Halloween 2015 (en.wikipedia.org)
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Dracunculiasis - A worm disease contracted by drinking infested water which penetrates the body and induces a painful blister from which a worm slowly emerges. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Columbus nightclub shooting - Former USMC murders Pantera guitarist for allegedly plagiarizing his lyrics (en.wikipedia.org)
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George Forster (murderer) - After being executed in 1803, his body was "reanimated" with electricity by a scientist (en.wikipedia.org)
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Malaria therapy - Deliberately infecting patients with malaria to cure mental illness (en.wikipedia.org)
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I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (en.wikipedia.org)
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Third man factor - Psychological phenomenon where a person having a long traumatic experience feels the presence of an unseen "other" encouraging them to make it through (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Surinam Toad - the frog that hatches babies out of its back like some kind of trypophobic nightmare (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Murder of Bridget Cleary - A woman is murdered when her husband and neighbours think she's been taken by spirits and replaced by a changeling (en.wikipedia.org)
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Roopkund - Icy lake in the Himalayas with hundreds of skeletons below its surface (en.wikipedia.org)
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Thiess of Kaltenbrun - A 17th century man claims to be a part of a shadowy group of Devil-fighting werewolves (en.wikipedia.org)
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SS Baychimo - Arctic trading ship trapped in pack ice north of Alaska, abandoned but seen repeatedly in different locations over the next 40 years (en.wikipedia.org)
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Death of Christoph Bulwin - A man says he's been injected with mercury by an unknown assailant, then dies. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Jerome of Sandy Cove - A castaway with both legs recently amputated, and who never spoke for the rest of his life (en.wikipedia.org)
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Lost Cosmonauts - Rumours and supposed recordings of failed and covered-up Soviet missions and cosmonaut deaths (en.wikipedia.org)
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Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis - surgery that uses a patient's own tooth grafted into their eye (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Station Nightclub Fire (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan (en.wikipedia.org)
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Human zoo - also known as ethnological expositions, were a colonial practice of publicly displaying people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. (en.wikipedia.org)
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