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Wenseslao Moguel

On March 18, 1915 Wenseslao Moguel was captured while fighting in the Mexican revolution. Without trial he was sentenced to be executed by firing squad. Moguel was shot 9 times including a final bullet through his head at close range by an officer to insure death. Moguel somehow survived and managed to escape. Wenseslao went on to live a full life after his “execution”. The above photo shows Moguel in 1937 on the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not radio show pointing to his scar from the bullet that was shot at close range.

Struwwelpeter

Heinrich Hoffman's 1845 bedtime classic Struwwelpeter is a collection of morality tales in which children are - with gleeful abandon - immolated, humiliated, and mutilated by men with giant scissors.

Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists, and Kristian Kiddie Kooks

This documentary focuses on the subculture known as television evangelists. Shown are clips from their programs, interviews with them from news programs and events, and also incidents when they said or did things and didn't know a camera or microphone was on them, along with other embarrassing moments.

Jim Cramer

Jim Cramer is an American television personality and former hedge fund manager.

Matthias Buchinger

Matthias Buchinger was born in Germany, without hands, feet or thighs. Buchinger was married four times and had at least fourteen children (by eight different women). He is also rumored to have children by as many as seventy mistresses. In addition to conjuring, Buchinger enjoyed a great reputation as an engraver and an artist.

Willie Sutton

Willie Sutton was a prolific U.S. bank robber. During his forty year criminal career he stole an estimated $2 million, and eventually spent more than half his adult life in prison. When he was asked why he robbed banks, “That's where the money is.”

The Skycycle

In Japan's Washuzan Highland amusement park, daredevils will find a roller coaster you pedal to control some 590 feet off of the ground.

Crawler-transporter

The crawler-transporters are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. The crawler-transporter weighs 2400 tons and has eight tracks, two on each corner.

Kuru

Kuru is a very rare, incurable neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is also known as the "laughing sickness" due to the pathologic bursts of laughter which are a symptom of the disease. It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism. Deceased family members were traditionally cooked and eaten, which was thought to help free the spirit of the dead. Women and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children.

Ca.60 Transaero

Gianni Caproni built the Ca.60 Transaero in 1921. The fuselage was a giant boat, it had eight wings, eight engines, and the whole looks like something cooked up at Disneyland that you might want to go out in. If it were carefully tethered. It weighed in at 55,000 pounds. After reaching an altitude of 60 feet the flying houseboat took a nosedive and broke up when it hit the water where it sank.

Opus

Encyclopædia of the sublime