The Most Insane Things That People Have Ever Stolen

A Huge Loss

It was stolen from the Isabella Gardener Museum in Boston in 1990 along with 12 high-profile other pieces. At the time, it was the biggest art heist ever. Most of the other paintings haven’t been found.

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The More You Know

  • The horse on the Wyoming license plate is named Steamboat.
  • The word "muscle" comes from a Latin term meaning "little mouse."
  • The designer of the current United States flag was 17 at the time, and created it for a high school project. He received a B-.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
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