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TIL about the Löwenmensch or Lion Man of Germany. About 12-in. tall, this statue of an anthropomorphic cave lion is about 35,000 to 40,000 years old and was carved from a mammoth tusk. The oldest statue ever discovered, it was found in the same caves as the earliest musical instruments.

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