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TIL 50 Cent once challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one page of a Harry Potter book

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b9mVN TIL that art thieves posing as police officers stole 13 works valued at $500 million from the the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. The stolen artwork include paintings by Rembrandt, Manet and Vermeer. The artwork hasn't been recovered, and empty frames hang in their place.
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