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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.

Serbian nobleman Miloš Obilić stabbed Sultan Murad I in his tent after the battle, dying for it instantly. The Ottomans won; Serbia was finished. But the assassination became the seed of Serbian identity for 600 years.

Trump tweeted 'South Africa' and 'large scale killing of farmers' after a Tucker Carlson segment in August 2018 — Pretoria summoned the U.S. ambassador within hours and land prices dropped before markets closed.

Nazis stripped a room of six tons of amber panels in 1941; eighty years of excavations, tunnels, and deathbed confessions have recovered nothing. Where do you hide a room?

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.

In 2017, Hapilon's ISIS-aligned Abu Sayyaf faction and the Maute group held Marawi — a Philippine city of 200,000 — for 154 days. The military retook it building by building; most of the city was leveled in the process.

By 1995, Doom ran on more machines than Windows 95 — spread across corporate networks and floppy disks, a game that became its own planetary infrastructure before the internet made that ordinary.

Wilkie Collins drank laudanum by the tumbler — eventually enough to kill several men — and dictated two complete novels in states he later had no memory of. His housekeeper measured the doses. The manuscripts survived him.

Limbless enemies drag themselves across the floor on their chins to bite the player. Ninja Gaiden II's 2008 combat generates severed-limb piles no other game has matched. The genre called it ultraviolence; reviewers called it art.