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TIL that in 2010, newly elected mayor of Reykjavik Jon Gnarr announced that he won’t form coalition with anyone who hasn’t seen all five seasons of ‘The Wire’.

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m1ERP TIL that a painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna.