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Miles messages can travel in Turkey's old whistling language = 3
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Number of nickel cadmium batteries required to power the first digital camera, which was created in 1973 = 16
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Percentage of 1,300 art galleries surveyed last year whose annual revenue was under $200,000 = 55
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Height (in feet) of the rogue wave depicted in Katsushika Hokusai's famed "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c.1830–32) = 32–39
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Number of Monets purchased by Paul Durand-Ruel over the four decades the art dealer promoted Impressionism = 1,000
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Number of sites on the Unesco World Heritage "Danger List" after the recent addition of places in Iraq and Yemen = 48
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Photographs taken by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Caroll in his lifetime = 3,000
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Est. amount (in US$) collectors spent at contemporary, modern, postwar, and Impressionist art auction in first 6 mo. of 2015 = 3,700,000,000
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Percentage of 40,000 museum visitors surveyed in 2010 who enjoyed guided tours = 31
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Number of international art fairs now held each year = 180 (compared to 55 in 2000)
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Years Robert Cornelius, who is considered to have photographed the first self-portrait in 1839, ran a photo studio before returning to the lamp-making business = 2
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Number of official colors used by the US government = 650