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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted roughly thirty seconds and fired thirty shots on October 26, 1881. Three of the four men who died had not yet drawn their weapons when the Earps opened fire.

Master Sergeant Samuel Doe — ninth-grade dropout — overthrew Liberia's government in 1980, then had 13 cabinet ministers stripped, tied to telephone poles on a Monrovia beach, and shot before a crowd.

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.

Two mob factions slaughtered each other across New York in 1930–31 until Joe Masseria was shot dead over lunch in Coney Island — and Salvatore Maranzano was stabbed in his own office four months later.

Norman Mailer's 1969 NYC mayoral run proposed making New York City the 51st state, hosting jousting tournaments in Central Park to settle civic disputes, and banning private cars from Manhattan — losing with just 5% of the primary vote.

Every Victorian kitchen held a coal-fired copper cauldron that boiled the week's clothes like soup — lye, blood, and grease rising together. Washday lasted from dawn to dusk, every Monday, without exception.

In December 1993, Night Trap was held up in a US Senate hearing alongside Mortal Kombat; Senator Joe Lieberman called it filth, and within a year the ESRB existed, rating every game sold in America.

Biggie Smalls was killed in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997 — six months after Tupac. The LAPD's own investigator identified a department officer as the prime suspect. The case was never prosecuted.

Genomic sequencing of teeth from a Kyrgyz graveyard dated 1338 — just ten years before the Black Death — pinpoints a single cemetery as the plague's origin. The headstones name the disease.