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TIL that Arnold Machin, whose 1960s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has appeared some 320 billion times on coins and stamps, once chained himself to a Victorian lamp-post in protest at its removal. His wife freed him, and both the lamp and his royal likeness still endure.

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