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* Swiss nuclear physicists built a reactor in a cave so that if there was a meltdown, the mountain would keep the accident from venting radiation, as had happened in Chernobyl. The reactor did indeed suffer a meltdown, so the scientists sealed up the cave.
* [[Adolf Hitler]] frequently altered his planned appearances and travel plans out of a sudden fear for possible attempts on his life. This allowed him to survive several dozens of carefully calculated assassination attempts, most of them perpetrated by ''his own officers.'' When you look at how meticulously these murders were planned, it's clear that only paranoia or dumb luck could have saved him so many times.
* Speaking of Hitler, [[Winston Churchill]] often got accused of being a paranoid old warmonger in the '30s. In fact his interest in war was largely simply a geek hobby though he could be overly bellicose at delicate political strife, but in any case he could easily have been mistaken at the time for a paranoid old warmonger. But of course [[Adolf Hitler]] really did intend to start another world war, really did intend to commit mass genocide, and in general Churchill was quite right to be paranoid of him.
* [[Ernest Hemingway]] believed himself to be tailed by the FBI, a claim his friend dismissed as a delusion resulting from mental deterioration and depression. However, it was recently [http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view revealed] that he really ''was'' ordered to be monitored for his activities in Cuba by J Edgar Hoover.
* Michael Drosnin using codes he claimed were hidden in the Bible predicted an assasination involving Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Then Rabin was assasinated.
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