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TIL Dali began selling signed blank sheets of canvas, originally intended as lithographs, to the market, allowing for counterfeiting and forgeries. Around 350,000 authentic Dali blank sheet signatures were released, but in 2016 over 12,000 fakes were seized, one which was estimated at $6.75 million.

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Dr8V TIL there is a sect that wants to clone Hitler in order to bring him to justice. They also beleive that aliens created life on earth.
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