decadentrebel

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Freedomites - Group of zealots who broke away from a Russian Christian group and moved to Canada, leading nude protests in the streets in the early 1900s as well as committing bombings in the nude (en.wikipedia.org)
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Cymothoa exigua - Parasite that severs the blood vessels in the fish's tongue causing it to fall off then attaches itself to the remaining stub and becomes the new tongue (en.wikipedia.org)
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Amorphophallus titanum - Flowering plant known for its rotting corpse odor (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Vulture and the Little Girl - Photograph of a famine-stricken boy who had collapsed in the foreground with a hooded vulture eyeing him from nearby (en.wikipedia.org)
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Dead (musician) - Former singer of black metal band Mayhem known (among other things) for his suicide photo being used as an album cover (en.wikipedia.org)
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Brazen bull - Life-sized bull-shaped statue that was hollow so victims could be locked inside its stomach and roasted alive (en.wikipedia.org)
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Chantal Lavigne - Died in July 2011 from hyperthermia and multiple organ dysfunction following an esoteric sweating ritual (en.wikipedia.org)
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Garry Hoy - Threw himself against the glass to prove to students that the windows on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable (en.wikipedia.org)
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Peshtigo fire - Large forest fire on October 8, 1871 that occurred on the same day as (and killed more than) the Great Chicago Fire (en.wikipedia.org)
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Manchineel - The world's "most dangerous tree", so toxic that standing under it during rain will cause your skin to burn and blister (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Lesser Key of Solomon - anonymous grimoire on demonology compiled during the 17th century (en.wikipedia.org)
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Pseudacteon - genus of flies known to migrate into the ant head during parasitic larval stage and after 2 weeks the fly emerges through the ant's mouth (en.wikipedia.org)
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