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TIL the Mona Lisa holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962 (equivalent to $870 million in 2021). It has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797

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YQyx TIL that ZZ Top’s first album is literally called ‘ZZ Top’s First Album’
9Ykkm TIL of the horrific murder of Junko Furuta, whose case details were so morbid, they caused court spectators to faint when read aloud.
p8R7Q TIL that the chemical element Berkelium is named after the University of California, Berkeley, which is named after the city of Berkeley, which is named after the philosopher George Berkeley, who, ironically, believed that the physical world does not actually exist.