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Joey Gallo was shot four times at Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy at 4 a.m. on April 7, 1972 — his own 43rd birthday dinner, his new wife and daughter at the table.

When Sasanian forces breached Dura-Europos's walls around 256 CE, they buried the city in rubble — accidentally preserving inside the walls a synagogue, a Mithraeum, and the world's oldest surviving Christian church murals.

Lekë Dukagjini, a 15th-century Albanian lord, allegedly codified bride-kidnapping, murder ransoms, and the blood-feud chain into a single oral law — a legal system that outlasted the Ottoman Empire by five centuries.

Trajan's two Dacian campaigns dragged 165 tonnes of gold and 330 tonnes of silver back to Rome — enough to fund gladiatorial games lasting 123 days straight. The kingdom of Dacia ceased to exist.

Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam ran Ethiopia's Red Terror from 1977 to 1978, killing between 30,000 and 750,000 citizens; families of the executed were billed for the bullets used in the executions.

Shulamith Firestone's 1970 'Dialectic of Sex' argued that pregnancy itself — not law or culture — was the root of women's oppression, and only artificial wombs would fix it. She wrote it at 25 and spent her last decades in psychiatric institutions.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was hauled off an Air France plane at JFK in his underwear, May 2011, accused by hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo of assault — ending the near-certain next presidency of France.

Ninety tins of Piero Manzoni's sealed feces sit in museum collections worldwide. Tin No. 083 sold for €275,000 in 2022 — worth more per gram than gold, exactly as Manzoni priced it in 1961.

Leon Black founded Apollo after being effectively pushed out of Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1990. The SEC barred him from the securities industry — then watched the firm he built grow to manage $600 billion. Bars, it turns out, are negotiable.