In a strange event on April 19th, 1995, McArthur Wheeler executed a bank robbery while wearing a disguise consisting of lemon juice smeared on his face. His rationale was rooted in the belief that lemon juice, commonly used as invisible ink, would render him undetectable by CCTV cameras. With confidence, he even grinned at each camera he encountered during the heist. However, later that same night, the police apprehended Wheeler. The moment of reckoning occurred when they presented him with the CCTV footage, leaving Wheeler utterly astonished. He expressed his disbelief to the officers, uttering the baffling words, "but I wore the juice." This outlandish episode involving McArthur Wheeler has earned its place as a renowned case study in the realm of psychology. It notably contributed to the unveiling of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias wherein individuals with limited competence in a particular task tend to overestimate their abilities.

On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh and his mother Revé went to a Sears department store in a Hollywood, Florida mall to shop for lamps. When they entered the store, Adam spotted a group of teenagers playing an Atari video game system and asked if he could watch them. His mom agreed since the lamps were just a few aisles over. However, when Revé returned less than 10 minutes later, Adam was gone.⁠ ⁠It was later discovered that a security guard had kicked the teens out of the store when they became rowdy while playing. The guard assumed Adam was with them and made him leave the mall too, but he was too shy to speak up to say that his mother was nearby. Adam was then abducted just outside the store, and his severed head was found in a drainage canal 100 miles away two weeks later. Adam's father, John Walsh, became an advocate for victims of violent crimes and this led to John Walsh starting the television program America's Most Wanted on February 7, 1988.

⁠Since the Holocaust, scholars and laypeople alike have questioned how such a horrific genocide could have happened. What few realize is that just over two decades earlier, something eerily similar already had.⁠ Although it remains widely overlooked and in some cases completely denied, the Turks and Ottomans killed approximately 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923 in the Armenian genocide. The Ottoman Empire suffered a series of military defeats and territorial losses—especially during the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars—leading to fear that the Armenians would seek independence. During their invasion of Russian and Persian territory in 1914, Ottoman paramilitaries massacred local Armenians. Mass deportation was intended to permanently forestall the possibility of Armenian independence. On 24 April 1915, the Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders from Constantinople. Following this, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert. Some victims were marched into the Syrian desert and left to die without food and water, while others were executed in burnings, drownings, and gassings. Yet others were taken to brutal concentration camps, where they were exterminated en masse.⁠