At least one death has been attributed to the program: military scientist Frank Olsen, whose drink the agency spiked with LSD at a research conference in 1953.
After a series of people, including a knife-carrying intruder in 2014, made it inside the White House, the agency added spikes to the fence around the grounds.
A sudden burst of loan and credit card applications in the past six months alerts the credit reporting agency to a spike in your available credit with no proof that you have been paying anything back.
Content from news agencies tended to spike and gain the most attention immediately, while news that started on blogs or was picked up by bloggers often experienced several peaks or rebounds in popularity as time wore on.
When Renée Zellweger married Kenny Chesney in a surprise beach wedding that spring, PopSugar was one of the first gossip sites to run photos (obtained from a photo agency), and traffic spiked.
South Korean lawmakers grilled government agencies about the sudden spike in the amount of xenon-133 detected from a radioisotope-monitoring station in Geojin, in northeastern South Korea.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Preliminary data released Tuesday by Brazil's space agency suggests Amazon deforestation spiked by more than a third during the past year, reversing a steady decline in destruction of the world's largest rainforest.
The Canadian health agency reports a seven-fold spike in Lyme cases since 2009.
In a report at the end of last year, credit rating agency Moody's warned of a "spike in defaults" among commodity companies, as well as oil producers.
By the spring of 2016, one U.S. spy agency had issued a report describing a spike in Russian focus on the U.S. Presidential race.
Around Washington State's Puget Sound, a regional air quality agency enforces no-burn days when pollution spikes.
