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History is brimming with evil leaders you've never heard of. Early on, there was Jean-Bedel Bokassa, head of the Central African Republic, who . . . crowned himself emperor in a sumptuous $20 million ceremony that helped bankrupt his country. Though he did find enough money to also kill a hundred students. . . Pretty bad, then then, in the Cs, Bokassa gets some tough competition from Chou, king of China in the 12th century B.C. To please his concubine, Chou built a lake of wine and forced naked men and women to chase one another around it. Also, he strung the forest with human flesh. . . Every letter [of the Encyclopedia Britannica] has at least one truly dark-hearted cretin who somehow ascended to head of state.

Source: The Know-It-All.

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