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TIL The current image of what everyone thinks Jesus looks like is actually 15th Century Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI commissioned Leonardo Di Vinci to recast Jesus in the image of his own beloved son Cesare Borgia.

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