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Billy Batts told Tommy DeSimone to 'go get your shinebox' at a Queens bar in 1970; DeSimone beat and stabbed him to death, then dug him up and reburied the body twice as heat closed in.

Serbian nobleman Miloš Obilić stabbed Sultan Murad I in his tent after the battle, dying for it instantly. The Ottomans won; Serbia was finished. But the assassination became the seed of Serbian identity for 600 years.

The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $6 million in free food as Patty Hearst's ransom — then she picked up a rifle, renamed herself 'Tania,' and robbed a San Francisco bank with them 10 weeks later.

Heart Mountain, Wyoming, housed 10,767 Japanese Americans at its 1942 peak — making it Wyoming's third-largest city. It had a post office, a high school, and a fence with armed guards. It lasted three years.

The last Dacian king slit his own throat on horseback as Roman cavalry reached him — the moment was carved in stone on Trajan's Column, his severed head then paraded to Rome.

Travis, a 200-pound chimpanzee raised as a human child in Stamford, Connecticut, mauled neighbor Charla Nash in 2009, leaving her without a face or hands. His owner called 911 mid-attack, saying: 'He's eating her.'

Caesar's own son-in-law and political patron, Pompey was beheaded in a rowboat off Egypt by a former Roman officer named Septimius. His severed head was presented to Caesar, who reportedly wept.

D. B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, then jumped into a Pacific Northwest storm at night. Only $5,800 of the ransom ever surfaced — buried in a riverbank.

Bertelsmann printed millions of Nazi-era devotional books and Wehrmacht field hymnals during World War II, then commissioned a self-exonerating history in 1998. An independent commission contradicted it in full by 2002.