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TIL that J.M.W Turner once had himself tied to the mast of a steamboat in order to experience a snow storm so that he could paint it. This is what inspired his work Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth.
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TIL an amateur archaeologist discovered European cave paintings used a proto-writing system meant to convey the gestation period of the various animals they painted by using dots to indicate the lunar cycle.