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TIL that Iran owns Renoir’s Gabrielle with an Open Blouse, a nude kept out of public view since the Revolution ; the whole collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is believed to be worth as much as $3bn, with works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock

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AN74B TIL that the UK has an invasive population of wallabies in the wild.
JYkJv TIL after a successful fan fundraiser in 2019 the British town of Newhaven unveiled a memorial bench honoring rapper Eazy-E. When faced with criticism, the idea's proponent said that "It’s better than nothing, which is pretty much all Newhaven has."
9Y9A7 TIL Babylonians were using a rudimentary form of calculus to calculate Jupiter’s displacement each day along the ecliptic, the path that the sun appears to trace through the stars. Historians had thought such techniques did not emerge until more than 1400 years later, in 14th century Europe.
kJZ9m TIL The clitoris never stops growing. While the penis grows rapidly during puberty and plateaus, the clitoris continues to enlarge gradually for most of a woman’s life.
A4vx TIL in 1949 actor Kirk Douglas was questioned in the disappearance of actress Jean Spangler, a recent costar and three months pregnant, after her purse was found with a note addressed to “Kirk” reading “Can’t wait any longer, Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away.”