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TIL Michelangelo’s sculpture of Mary carrying Jesus after the crucifixion was severely damaged by insane geologist, Laszlo Toth, who attacked it with a hammer, screaming “I AM JESUS CHRIST”. Meanwhile, onlookers took many of the pieces of marble that flew off.

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