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TIL that Olympic champion Franco Testa quit cycling to become a butcher.

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R5Kg4 TIL since none of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings ever received titles by Goya himself, it is unknown if Saturn Devouring His Son really depicts Saturn/Cronus at all, and has been variously interpreted as an inversion of antisemitism or a depiction of chaos and nothingness
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