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01Stoudenmire killed three men in eleven seconds during the Four Dead in Five Seconds gunfight, April 14, 1881.
02He accidentally shot an innocent Mexican bystander during the melee — the fourth body in those five seconds.
03Stoudenmire's murder of a political opponent's dog directly triggered the Manning brothers' vendetta that eventually killed him.

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Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

01Inspectors measured oil levels by dipping rods into tanks — De Angelis pumped oil between tanks to fool simultaneous checks.
02The fraud's 1963 collapse triggered losses that bankrupted brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co. and Allied Crude Vegetable Oil.
03Total borrowed against nonexistent oil reached $175 million — roughly $1.7 billion in today's money.

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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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01HeLa cells were mailed to labs globally within a year of harvest; Lacks died of the same cancer eight months after the biopsy.
02Her family learned the cells existed in 1973 — from a researcher who called asking for their DNA.
03A single gram of HeLa cells was sold commercially for around $25 in the 1950s; her estate received nothing.

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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.

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01X-rays taken in 1947 confirmed the rapier passed through his liver and stomach undamaged.
02He performed the skewering publicly in Zurich, witnessed by physicians who could find no trickery.
03He died in 1948 — not from blades, but from a swallowed steel needle causing an aortic aneurysm.

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights , oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in) , Museo del Prado , Madrid

01The right panel contains a man nailed to a giant harp's soundboard, his weight stretching the strings.
02A lute player nearby has sheet music tattooed across their naked buttocks — eternally performing their sin.
03Bosch painted the triptych around 1500; no commission record, patron, or explanatory document has ever been found.

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01Over 7,000 amnesty applications were filed; only 1,512 were granted after public hearings.
02Security policeman Jeffrey Benzien demonstrated his 'wet bag' suffocation technique on a survivor in the hearing room.
03Victims' families received no veto over amnesty; the state's pardon was unconditional on full disclosure.

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01CIH was written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-hau while attending Tatung University in 1998.
02It triggered on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster anniversary, earning the nickname "Chernobyl virus."
03Unlike most viruses, CIH overwrote BIOS firmware, making infected machines unable to boot at all.

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