In March 1987, a Japanese insurance firm shocked the art world by paying nearly triple the previous auction record for a single painting. The buyer reportedly hung it in a Tokyo office lobby.
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What was the name of the digital cash system created by David Chaum in 1989, often considered the first attempt at electronic money?
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Which sunken Spanish galleon, discovered off Colombia in 2015, is often called the 'holy grail of shipwrecks' due to its estimated $17 billion treasure?
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Which 1986 film features Bob Hoskins as a private detective in a world where humans and cartoons coexist?
π₯ Movies & Series Β· 29 votes
Which English chemist isolated the active compound from the bark of the cinchona tree, leading to the treatment of malaria?
π©Ί Health Β· 27 votes
Which Act of the UK Parliament, passed in 1967, decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men over 21 in England and Wales?
β€οΈ Relationships Β· 26 votes
Rank these infamous currency collapses from earliest to most recent.
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