01Vincent Gigante fired the shot in the elevator lobby of 115 Central Park West.
02Costello survived, refused to name his shooter, and was effectively forced into retirement anyway.
03The note found in his pocket listed casino earnings — evidence used against him in tax court.
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01Koresh legally married 14-year-old Rachel Jones in Texas in 1984, with her parents' signed consent.
02The Branch Davidians had legally purchased over 300 firearms and 150 hand grenades before the 1993 raid.
03Koresh claimed exclusive right to impregnate all female members; he called their children 'the new Davidians.'
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01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.
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01Versailles troops executed an estimated 10,000 Communards during 'Bloody Week,' May 21–28, 1871.
02The Communards burned the Tuileries Palace and the Paris Hôtel de Ville as troops closed in.
03The Commune abolished night-work for bakers and cancelled rents — then ceased to exist in 72 days.
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01Keeler was simultaneously sleeping with Ivanov while Profumo was receiving NATO nuclear briefings — in 1961.
02Profumo lied directly to the House of Commons on March 22, 1963 — the lie itself became the career-ending act.
03After resigning, Profumo spent 40 years cleaning toilets and serving meals at Toynbee Hall charity in East London.
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01De Kock's unit at Vlakplaas once blew up three activists and scattered the remains across two provinces.
02He gave evidence against his political masters in exchange for two life sentences, implicating cabinet ministers.
03Paroled in 2015; he personally apologised to widows of men he had ordered killed.
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01Caesar's inner wall (contravallation) was 11 miles; his outer wall (circumvallation) was 14 miles — both built in under six weeks.
02The relief army of roughly 250,000 Gauls attacked both walls at once; Caesar personally rode to plug a breach, his red cloak used as a field signal.
03When the relief army failed, Vercingetorix surrendered 80,000 starving survivors — and the 20,000 Mandubii civilians Caesar had refused to feed died in the gap between the walls.
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01Rai stones can measure up to 3.6 meters across and weigh over 4 metric tons.
02One stone sank to the sea floor in transit; the family retained full ownership — everyone knew.
03Economists compare Yap's oral ledger to the gold France claimed from the US Federal Reserve in 1932 without moving it.
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01The loris activates venom by rubbing its arm gland against its mouth before biting — a two-step weapon assembly.
02Its slow movement is not timidity; it is a mimic of the venomous Asian krait snake.
03Viral 'tickling' videos show lorises raised with clipped teeth — a mutilation done to make them safe pets.