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b6v77 TIL: A painting of Bea Arthur Naked sold for $1.9m
x4G1 TIL: in 2010 a man had live explosives on his bag for three days unknowingly, when he got a phone call and a bomb squad showed up at his home. The explosives were placed and forgotten on his bag during an airport security exercise.
woERP TIL since 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a prize of 1 million dollars to the person that can prove the Riemann Hypothesis. No one has been able to prove it since it was formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1860.
rRPlw TIL that Basque, although considered to be a language isolate, actually had a predecessor in the form of Aquitanian, which died out almost 2,000 years ago.
R7mgj TIL static sparks produced under low humidity (as in to car doors in winter) can go up to 20,000 volts! 40 V is enough to be fatal with wet skin (1st part under Production; 2nd part under Safety in link)