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Laika was sold to Soviet schoolchildren as a hero who lived days in orbit; in 2002, her handlers admitted she died of overheating within five to seven hours of launch, on November 3, 1957.

Yo-Yo Ma left his 1733 Montagnana cello — valued at $2.5 million — in a New York taxi trunk in 1999. The cab company traced the driver within an hour. He played the cello at the reunion press conference.

At 150 mph in a stoop, the golden eagle strikes with talons exerting 750 psi — roughly the grip of a hydraulic press on a soda can. Civilizations from the Mongols to Rome named themselves by this bird.

Schiele painted children in explicit sexual poses, was jailed in 1912 — and the judge burned one drawing in open court as a torch, declaring it pornography. He was 22. The models were sometimes as young as 12.

Mont Ventoux's summit is bare white limestone — no trees, no shade above 1,800 metres. Simpson died here in 1967; Chris Froome ran up it on foot in 2016 after his bike shattered on a crash.

Recorded in 2005 on an Access Hollywood bus, Trump told host Billy Bush he grabs women 'by the pussy' without asking. Released eleven days before the election, it moved no needle.

Minoan frescoes show unarmed athletes vaulting over charging bulls in rituals that predate the Spanish corrida by 3,000 years. The matador's suit of lights is Bronze Age costume with a modern tailor.

On October 19, 1944, Barney Hajiro charged two machine-gun nests and killed a sniper — alone, without orders. He was awarded the Medal of Honor 55 years later.

Alfred Nobel read his own obituary—'merchant of death'—while still alive, then spent his fortune engineering the Peace Prize to rewrite his legacy. The man who perfected mass killing also endowed its antidote.