Painstaking work has begun on “unveiling” a nude art painting by 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Covered up 70 years after it was competed in 1616, art restorers aren’t able to remove the beautiful woman’s draped scarf without damaging the artwork, so they’re creating a digital image of the original version instead. 

If you’ve ever been cranky about having to wait for your food order, at least it wasn’t 30 years… That’s the wait time for a box of Kobe beef croquettes from a Japanese butcher shop. The deep-fried dumplings blew up on the internet in the 2000s, and since then the waitlist has continued to grow. 

And speaking of long-running sagas, a Welsh man has brought an end to a 20-year joke after taking down a fake airport sign he put up in 2002. Costing him £1,500/year to maintain, it was one pricey gag…