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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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NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.
NXOJ TIL that Clerks was originally rated NC-17 solely because of its graphic dialogue, until Alan Dershowitz (Harvard Law Professor and major civil rights advocate) convinced the MPAA to lower it to Rated-R
9wZaQ TIL “That Saved By The Bell” originally aired as the show “Good Morning, Miss Bliss” for one season before being retooled. Those episodes then aired as “Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years”
NWNe TIL that in 1991 World Table Tennis Championships North and South Korea participated as a unified team under the name “Korea” to beat the “unbeatable” Chinese team
4kEZo TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was a spokesperson for Pizza Hut. Link Below!