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A Missouri Man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi River to delay his wife coming home so he could party. He flooded 14,000 acres and was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.

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A Missouri Man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi River to delay his wife coming home so he could party. He flooded 14,000 acres and was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.

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1. In 1967, a fighter pilot purposely flew through enemy air defenses to make enemy aircraft leave him alone, then flew his damaged aircraft back into combat and destroyed two missile sites defending a target. Allowing 70 of the 72 other friendly aircraft to survive the mission.

2. Severing the limb of a Bloodwood tree triggers the same type of response you'd see if you severed a human limb. The damage causes the release of a deep crimson sap that looks alarmingly like human blood; its sole purpose is to coagulate and seal wounds, but has many other medical uses as well.

3. In 1993 James Scott from Missouri purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.

4. The cloth headrest/cover on a train or airline seat is called an antimacassar, and is so called as its original purpose was to prevent the macassar oil used by Victorian men as hair gel from damaging the fabric.

5. Before having its own room in the Louvre, the Mona Lisa was damaged purposefully. In 1956 Ugo Ungaza threw a stone at the Mona Lisa and damaged a portion of the painting near her left elbow.

6. Demand for chinaberry in ornamental purposes is dropping because of its root which induces damage on the sanitary pipes and clogging of drains. Also, trunk of chinaberry tree is very weak and it easily splits during the storms, while chinaberries quickly turn sidewalks into dangerously slippery surfaces.

7. Until it was damaged in WW2, London had a railway for the sole purpose of transporting the dead to a cemetery outside of London for burial.

8. "Gardiner's: Ship That Never Sank" A conspiracy theory which claims that the Titanic was switched off with its more damaged sister ship "The Olympic" and purposely sank. They claim the owners of the ship "White Star Lines" were seeking insurance money for the more expensive Titanic.

9. A Missouri Man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi River to delay his wife coming home so he could party. He flooded 14,000 acres and was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.

10. In 1993, a Missouri man purposely damaged a levee to delay his wife coming home from work so “...he could have a party.” Instead, the river flooded 14,000 acres of land and was later arrested for “causing a catastrophe” and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

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The nine Abrams tanks destroyed during the first Gulf War, seven were destroyed by friendly fire, and two were purposely destroyed to prevent capture after being damaged.