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Eric Lawes borrowed a metal detector to find a lost hammer in a Suffolk field and instead turned up 15,234 Roman coins, still in their wooden chest. The hammer was found too.

Mugabe's hyperinflation peaked in November 2008 at 89.7 sextillion percent monthly; Zimbabwe issued a $100 trillion banknote that could not buy a bus ticket, while life expectancy fell to 37 — the world's lowest.

IC 814 was hijacked on Christmas Eve 1999 and held on a Kandahar tarmac for eight days; one passenger was stabbed to death. India freed three militants, one of whom later helped plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

In 1971 Burden asked an assistant to shoot him in the left arm with a .22 rifle inside a Santa Ana garage. The bullet grazed the bone. The event lasted five seconds and was witnessed by a handful of people.

Joseph Glidden's 1874 barbed-wire patent — filed after sketching the design on a coffee grinder — closed the American open range within a decade and then reappeared at the Somme, herding men into machine-gun fire.

Emperor Xian reigned for thirty-one years as Cao Cao's hostage. He watched Cao Cao personally drag Empress Fu from her chambers and execute her inside the palace walls in 214 CE.

On June 4, 1974, Cleveland's Municipal Stadium sold beer for 10 cents a cup; by the ninth inning, fans swarmed the field armed with chains and knives, and the umpires forfeited the game to Texas.

Britain's 'impregnable' Singapore fortress had fifteen-inch coastal guns pointed permanently seaward. Japan's 30,000 troops arrived on bicycles from the Malayan jungle to the north and accepted the surrender of 80,000 Allied soldiers.

In 1848, a 3.5-cm iron tamping rod blasted through Phineas Gage's left cheekbone and out the top of his skull. He survived, walked to a cart — and became an entirely different man.