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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, fetching $450.3 million in 2017

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a8wrJ TIL the inspiration for 'Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde' may have been French teacher Eugene Chantrelle, who was executed for the murder of his wife in May 1878. Chantrelle was believed to have poisoned others as well at dinner parties with a toasted cheese & opium.
DN5p TIL The Rubble Club exists and its membership is only for architects who have had buildings built and then demolished during their lifetime
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.
yQX0X TIL congenital deafness in cats is seen almost exclusively in white cats. In addition, if a white cat has two blue eyes, it is 3-5 times more likely to be deaf. Cats with one blue eye are twice as likely to be deaf.
LkbNZ TIL that in rare cases, traumatic brain injuries can cause FAS, or foreign-accent syndrome. This results in a patient's native speech taking on entirely new tone, or accent.