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No Such Thing As Jesus's Magic Wand
In 1791, three men swam from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge for an eight guinea wager. The winner was carried to a pub to celebrate where he drank so much gin, he expired. Presumably the other two just split the…
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The Statue of David was commissioned about 100 years before it was actually built, and Donatello was one on the sort of committee that decided it had to be built, and his students had some attempts, and they cocked it…
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