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Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis compiled a typed hit list of senior ANC figures and handed it to Janusz Waluś — Chris Hani's name was on page one. The list also included Nelson Mandela.

Wilkie Collins drank laudanum by the tumbler — eventually enough to kill several men — and dictated two complete novels in states he later had no memory of. His housekeeper measured the doses. The manuscripts survived him.

Before releasing sarin on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Shoko Asahara sold his bathwater to followers for $800 a cup. He convinced a physician to murder members who tried to leave. He was hanged in 2018.

Egypt's Buhen fortress, raised around 1860 BCE deep in Nubia, had a dry moat, brick battlements, and loopholed walls for archers — a complete medieval-style defense built 3,200 years before the Middle Ages.

Ciskei Defence Force soldiers opened fire on 80,000 ANC marchers inside a soccer stadium in Bisho on 7 September 1992, killing 29 and wounding 200. The soldiers fired from behind a low fence as the crowd ran.

Parmalat's CFO produced a Bank of America account statement confirming €4 billion — it was a photocopied forgery. The dairy company behind your supermarket milk had a $14 billion hole in its books. Europe's Enron, assembled with a scanner.

Bismarck received a routine diplomatic telegram in 1870, redacted it to read as a deliberate insult, and released it to the press. France declared war within days, and the German Empire was born from the fallout.

British War Secretary John Profumo shared a mistress, 19-year-old Christine Keeler, with Soviet naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov — then lied about it to Parliament. The lie cost him his career; the affair may have cost Britain state secrets.

Shahrbaraz took Jerusalem in 614, hauled the True Cross to Ctesiphon, occupied Egypt — then murdered Emperor Khosrow II and ruled Persia for exactly 40 days before his own officers cut him down.