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TIL Factum Foundation will provide a resin replica to any museum willing to return looted Bakor monoliths to Nigeria. The original basalt sculptures range from 40cm to person height. This approach is a potential model for how museums can handle restitution.

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M7Vam TIL - There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
VBpVB TIL Mao Zedong's eldest son was killed by a US napalm strike on North Korea
9YlNr TIL Hermit crabs need to find new shells to move into as they grow. If one finds a shell that is too big it'll wait for a larger crab to come along so it can take their old shell. Other crabs congregate waiting for available shells and form a line from largest to smallest so they can all swap shells
vPy1D TIL about the ‘exploits’ of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.