stackyFACTSThe incredibly iconic marble depiction of beauty that is famously missing her upper limbs wasn't deliberately designed to look tragically incomplete. Researchers discovered that before centuries of damage, she was casually leaning on a pillar and holding a slightly completely unremarkable piece of fruit.
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