01Nero had his mother Agrippina stabbed after a rigged collapsing boat failed to drown her.
02He married the castrated freedman Sporus in a formal wedding ceremony attended by the court.
03Poppaea's body was embalmed with spices rather than cremated — an un-Roman royal honor.
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01Getty's grandson John Paul Getty III was 16 when kidnapped in Rome in July 1973.
02The severed ear and a lock of hair arrived at a Rome newspaper six weeks into the standoff.
03Getty Sr. lent his son the final ransom sum at 4% interest — repayment was contractually required.
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01Cerberus paid $7.4 billion for Chrysler in May 2007; Chrysler filed for bankruptcy by April 2009.
02Daimler paid Cerberus $650 million to take Chrysler off its hands — a negative sale price.
03The U.S. government ultimately injected $12.5 billion to rescue the company Cerberus had just bought.
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01McCartney used the placeholder lyric 'Scrambled eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs' while writing 'Yesterday.'
02'Yesterday' holds the Guinness record for most cover versions of any song — over 2,200 recorded artists.
03He dreamed the complete melody, woke, played it immediately, and told no one for weeks out of uncertainty.
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01Approximately 70,000 of the 120,000 interned were U.S.-born citizens with full constitutional rights.
02The government classified internees as enemy aliens despite two-thirds holding American citizenship.
03Draft notices were delivered inside the camps; refusal meant federal prosecution for draft evasion.
gnostek1 / 5Front page cover of the newspaper L'Aurore for Thursday 13 January 1898, with the letter J'Accuse...! , written by Émile Zola about the Dreyfus affair . The headline reads I Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic .
01Zola addressed the letter directly to President Félix Faure, naming eleven officials as co-conspirators.
02L'Aurore printed 300,000 copies on January 13, 1898 — multiples of its usual daily circulation.
03Zola was convicted of libel and fled to England, returning only after Dreyfus was exonerated.
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01NotPetya had no functional decryption mechanism; it was pure destruction costumed as a ransom demand.
02Shipping giant Maersk lost $300 million and had to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers.
03It spread via a poisoned update to MeDoc, Ukrainian accounting software used by most of the country.
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01Vercingetorix united over thirty Gallic tribes — the only leader ever to do so against Rome in the Gallic Wars.
02He was held in the Tullianum prison in Rome for six years before being paraded in Caesar's triumph and executed in 46 BC.
03At Alesia, Vercingetorix ordered civilians expelled from the town to save food; Caesar refused to let them through his lines and they starved in the gap.
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01Jones's documentary 'Trader' filmed him forecasting a 1987 market crash before Black Monday wiped 22% off the Dow.
02He reportedly tripled his money during Black Monday by holding massive short positions entering October 1987.
03The film was effectively withdrawn from circulation; Jones has never publicly explained why it must not be seen.