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TIL the most recent restoration of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci took 21 years to complete

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PY6YO TIL that after the filming of "2001 a Space Odyssey", director Stanley Kubrick destroyed nearly all of the film's props so that they wouldn't be used for "lesser" science-fiction films in the future.
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