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The Louvre’s most protected artifact is a curator’s raised eyebrow. It can stop a whole room with one look.

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A curator's eyebrow is not an artifact. The Louvre's most famous protected works are real objects such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo; this claim is a joke.

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