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The Bloomberg Terminal — a single black keyboard and dual-screen workstation renting for $24,000 a year — is leased by 330,000 finance professionals worldwide and generates enough revenue to have funded two New York City mayoral campaigns.

When the Flor de la Mar sank off Sumatra in 1511, it took four elephant-loads of Malaccan royal gold with it — the largest prize Afonso de Albuquerque ever seized. The wreck's location remains disputed.

Wii Sports shipped inside every Wii console sold — 82.9 million units — making it the best-selling sports game ever made, played by grandmothers who had never held a controller and eight-year-olds competing at the same level.

Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen eating dinner in Yemen, was killed by a drone two weeks after his father. The Obama administration later said it was a mistake. His grandfather asked why.

Cerberus Capital — named for the three-headed dog guarding the underworld — bought Chrysler from Daimler for $7.4 billion in 2007, then watched it go bankrupt in exactly 735 days. Hell kept the dog; taxpayers kept the bill.

Eight Chicago White Sox players were paid by gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series — then played the following full season undetected. Shoeless Joe Jackson, who batted .375 in the fixed series, was banned for life.

In July 1950, U.S. soldiers opened fire on hundreds of South Korean refugees sheltering beneath the double arch of the No Gun Ri railroad bridge. Survivors described three days of killing. Survivors existed.

The dik-dik marks territory by pressing a preorbital gland — located millimetres from its eyeball — directly onto twigs, essentially staking claim with its own face, one poke at a time.

He made $100 million shorting the 1929 crash, then lost it all twice more. Jesse Livermore walked into a New York coat-check room with a pistol in 1940. The note said he was a failure.