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TIL a group of 100 artists covertly placed props with coded messages onto the set of the soap opera 'Melrose Place' over the span of 2 years. Props included bedsheets with unrolled condoms titled 'Safety Sheets' and paintings depicting locations related to high-profile deaths/murders.

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