Vito Cascio Ferro

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

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The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo

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Vito Cascio Ferro reputedly committed the first Mafia murder on American soil — detective Joe Petrosino, shot in Palermo in 1909 — and allegedly boasted he was the only man to have done it personally in years.

Tino De Angelis filled vast New Jersey tanks mostly with seawater, floated a thin film of soybean oil on top for inspectors, and borrowed $175 million against it. The 1963 collapse took down two Wall Street firms in a single afternoon.

In April 1919, thirty-six mail bombs were posted simultaneously to US senators, a Supreme Court justice, and John D. Rockefeller. Most were intercepted by a postal worker who noticed the postage due. Justice nearly by accident.

NSA's stolen EternalBlue exploit encrypted 80,000 NHS devices in May 2017, forcing British hospitals to turn away ambulances. The kill switch was found by a 22-year-old researcher who registered a $10.69 domain.

The swordfish heats its own eyes and brain to 28°C above the surrounding ocean, running a biological furnace to keep vision razor-sharp at depth and speed. It is a warm-eyed predator in a cold, dark sea.

A Scottish duelist who killed a man in 1694 talked his way into running France's entire money supply — then collapsed it. He fled Paris in a stolen carriage, died broke in Venice.

Cacareco, a four-year-old female rhinoceros at the São Paulo zoo, received 100,000 votes in the 1959 city council election — more than any human candidate — apparently written in by voters exhausted with corruption.

A small boy in a cardboard crown discovers a kingdom and builds it not by conquering, but by politely knocking on doors and asking residents — farmers, bakers, warriors — if they'd like to help. They usually say yes.

Cassander starved Alexander's mother Olympias to death in a sealed tomb, then had her son and Alexander's own son executed — methodically erasing the bloodline. He reportedly never met Alexander's eyes willingly.