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TIL there’s a museum in Massachusetts dedicated to art “too bad to be ignored”. A painting was stolen, and a reward was set at $6.50 (raised to $36.73)

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OOd4 TIL that breasts have been referred to as “melon[s]” since the times of Ancient Greece
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