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TIL The Qin Hui statues in Hangzhou, China, are iron, kneeling figures depicting the Song Dynasty chancellor (1090–1155) and his wife, Lady Wang, eternally shamed for betraying patriotic General Yue Fei. These statues have been subjected to 900 years of ritual spitting, beating and abuse by visitors

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