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TIL Ancient Greek sculptures were not always white. They were often painted bright and colorful

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gDp8 TIL John Wayne was such a vocal anti-communist that Joseph Stalin contemplated having him assassinated.
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WQX4 TIL Winston Churchill enjoyed bricklaying in his spare time and built several walls at his house at Chartwell.
gM70L TIL Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, trams resumed their routes in the ruins of the city.
VMp7Z TIL that Adolphe Sax (Inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him "Little Sax, the ghost"