A long-lost statue of Colonel Sanders, the Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot, is back in the public eye after it was tossed into a river in Osaka, Japan, in 1985.

The statue, which was unveiled at a service in Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine in central Japan last Thursday, had been thrown into the river by excited fans of the Hanshin Tigers after the baseball team won a national championship.

Since then, in a streak of ill fortune coined the 'Colonel's curse', the team has failed to win another national championship.

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