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38: Edward's buried paint

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Art of Mummy Brown

A pigment called mummy brown was ground up Egyptian mummies. A visual artist did not realize it was literally that. When he found this out at his garden party, he insisted on giving his last tube of money brown a proper burial. It was apparently a really good brown.

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