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Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Christie’s Images Ltd via The New York Times

$195 million

PRICE Andy Warhol’s 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetched last spring. That’s the highest price ever for an American work of art at auction.

Source: The New York Times

329

YEARS it took for lawmakers to pardon Elizabeth Johnson Jr., the last woman to be exonerated after being wrongly accused in 1693 of practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.

Source: The New York Times

4,500 years

AGE of the world’s largest plant, a sea grass recently discovered off the coast of Australia. Experts believe a meadow of 77 square miles of the grass is all from one plant that has been cloning itself for millennia.

Source: The New York Times

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