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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.

'Lesbians are not women' — Monique Wittig said it plainly in 1981 at the MLA conference, scandalizing the room. She meant: woman is a class, and lesbians have already defected.

Andrea Dworkin, weighing over 200 pounds and dressing deliberately outside feminine norms, testified before a 1986 Attorney General's commission that every act of intercourse under patriarchy was a form of occupation. Was she wrong, or just unsayable?

Rogelio Roxas claimed to have found General Yamashita's buried hoard and showed a golden Buddha to prove it; he was then arrested, tortured, and died in custody. The gold has never appeared.

In spring 2024, Kendrick Lamar alleged Drake had a secret daughter in addition to the already-hidden son — across certified gold and platinum releases. Two children, neither confirmed, both now public record.

Colin Powell held up a vial of fake anthrax and pointed to blurred satellite photos at the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003. He later called it 'a blot' — his single worst word.

Margaret Atwood co-invented the LongPen — a robotic signing device transmitting her pen strokes in real time from anywhere on earth — so she could "be" at book signings without flying. She filed the patent in 2004 and the company still operates.

Amelio Robles Ávila rode with Emiliano Zapata's forces through the Mexican Revolution, earning the rank of colonel through combat — then lived openly as a man for eight more decades, receiving veterans' recognition from the Mexican government in his nineties.

Bill Wilson co-founded AA on the principle of complete abstinence, then took LSD with Aldous Huxley in 1956 and spent years lobbying AA's board to adopt it as a sobriety tool. The board said no. He kept taking it.