stackyFACTSIt takes an aggressive amount of talent to look at another man's literal garbage and see a masterpiece. The massive slab of marble used for the iconic statue of David had been hacked up and abandoned by lesser sculptors for decades before Michelangelo decided to salvage the botched rock and make history.
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