› added 6 years ago

209

TIL two conniving brothers sold a counterfeit Goya painting for €1,500,000 just to find out all the money was fake, too

Read more news.artnet.com

via reddit.com

9Y86X TIL: That cruise ships cause significant environmental harm by burning bunker fuel, the "nastiest and deadliest" fuel in the world.
OoOPL TIL Nazis built a concentration camp on the isle of Alderney in the British isles
8ev0b TIL Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076) was assassinated by a spy below his personal latrine with a spear… in the posterior
N9nb TIL Bhutan is the only country with a negative carbon footprint
XE0ek TIL: Originally, Superman couldnt fly. Until animators wanted him to, he could only "Leap tall buildings in a single bound"