› added 7 months ago

120

TIL about "Pigcasso" the first non-human artist to be given her own art exhibition and for holding the record for most expensive artwork by an animal ever sold

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rR7py TIL that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never watched the Pilot Episode of Seinfeld due to her not being aware of its existence before she was cast as Elaine
lo5mN TIL that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to apologize to the mother of a dead serviceman in 2009 after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled her name. The Sun tabloid then attacked Brown for making the mistake, & in doing so managed to make the same mistake.
eQ94 TIL Venus Flytraps are only native to a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, NC
E6xo TIL Cats “Headbutt” people because they make them feel safe, or they trust them.
oRkDr TIL the last line of Franz Kafka's "The Judgement" has a sexual double meaning in its original German. Kafka later confessed that when he wrote that final line he was thinking of "a violent ejaculation" instead of "an unending stream of traffic", a play on the German word "Verkehr".