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TIL that when a mad Hungarian smashed up Michelangelo's Pietà with a hammer they found an exact replica in a lost Peruvian village to restore it.

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5YXAr TIL Jawdat Ibrahim, an Arab Israeli man, won $22m the Illinois lottery in 1990 and used his winnings to develop his home village of Abu Ghosh. The hummus restaurant he opened there has been used to host Israel-Palestine peace talks, and set the world record for largest Hummus.
6EJbZ TIL that the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that one should never spank their children or verbally abuse them, ever.
Rwba TIL there is a creature called a bearcat, and it smells like popcorn
Ge45 TIL that pinball was illegal for 30 years in many major US cities. Politicians thought that pinball was a game based on chance and therefore must have been a mob-run scam. The ban ended when a master pinball player was called in front of a committee to demonstrate his skill.
oBex7 TIL that a bishop of the Church of England once won World's Biggest Liar, an annual competition for telling lies held in Cumbria, England, by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life."