The discovery of a Virgin Mary statue that had gone missing a decade ago, Elon Musk upsetting Egypt with a tweet about aliens and the pyramids, and a tourist's ill-fated visit to an Italian art museum are among the strange, unusual, and enlightening stories to pop up on our radar this past week.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has something of a reputation for making strange and controversial statements on social media and, this past week, that trend continued when he wound up raising the ire of officials in Egypt by arguing on Twitter that it was obvious that extraterrestrials had built the pyramids. The nod to the popular ancient alien conspiracy theory garnered considerable attention from people online and, understandably, did not go over all that well with experts in Egypt, who quickly refuted the idea and noted historical records which indicate that the iconic structures were built by humans. To his credit, Musk later conceded that the pyramids were likely man-made and not the product of alien intervention.

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