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TIL Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime

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neERW TIL that Kirk Douglass, the father of Michael Douglass (who is 75 years old), is STILL alive. Born in 1916, he is 102 years old and currently one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.
gMLNy TIL the word 'nice' originally meant 'foolish' or 'stupid' as it came from the Latin 'nescire', meaning 'to be ignorant'
dkrr TIL there is quite a large list of people who were killed by the things they invented.
KOdN9 TIL Irish golfer Adam Rolston set up a 2,000 km golf hole across Mongolia. The hole was par 14,000 and took 80 days to finish. He finished the game 6,000 strokes over par.
QaYL TIL the “vampire squirrel” of Borneo has the fluffiest tail of any mammal on Earth - its tail is 130% the size of its own body