Everyone knows the Ponzi scheme. Almost nobody knows the rest: the skin he donated to save a stranger, the wife who stayed 20 years, the charisma that made Boston love a fraudster, and the long ruin that followed.

: From a Viking killed by a dead man’s tooth to the world’s richest Roman choking on gold, these are history’s most satisfying karmic endings. Buckle up.

George "Buzz" Beurling shot down 31 enemy planes over Malta, got fired for shooting at his own commanding officer, and died on a covert arms run to Israel at 26. Canada's most celebrated fighter ace had a life stranger than any war film.