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TIL the Bamiyan Buddha statues taken down by the Taliban in 2001 have been recreated using holographic 3D Laser Light Projection

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MZEb TIL the Elephant Man was unable to sleep lying down for his whole life and finally experimented, leading to his death. It was claimed that his death was due to the desire that had dominated his life—the pathetic but hopeless desire to be ‘like other people’
PY9Lw TIL when Stephen Hawking met with the Pope in the Vatican, the Pope knelt down when he had trouble understand Hawking. This prompted one scientist in the room to say that "things certainly have changed since Galileo."
rRgyy TIL that during the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Spain cheated their way to winning gold medals in basketball as 10 out of the 12 players on the team weren't disabled.
woe9o TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed.
GYO57 TIL The song "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum increased the awareness of runaway minors, resulting in 26 missing person cases mentioned in the music video to be closed as of right now.