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TIL in 2003 £4 million of stolen artwork from the Whitworth Art Gallery (by Picasso, Gauguin & Van Gogh) was recovered in a cardboard tube next to a public toilet after an anonymous tip-off. Also in the tube was a note that read "the intention was not to steal. only to highlight the woeful security"

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