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xVYLw TIL 'Saturn devouring his son' and the 13 other Black Paintings were never ment for public display. In 1819 Francisco Goya went into near isolation and painted the works directly onto the walls of his house. The haunting pictures reflect Goya's internal demons and civil strife occuring in Spain
W7WL TIL Peta condemned a rat killing scene in the famous war shooter game Battlefield 3, by stating it can have, “a brutalising effect on the young male target audience.”
oBvvR TIL that in 5 years, the Black Plague killed over 20 million Europeans, over a third of the continent's population at that time
VMdRp TIL a Cornell University study found that social media "Likes" are less likely to affect the self-esteem of people with a sense of purpose (defined as ongoing motivation that is self-directed, oriented toward the future and beneficial to others).
yQrKV TIL United Passions was a 2014 film about FIFA funded 90% by FIFA. Its release coincided with the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal where it grossed $918 in its opening weekend (worst ever), a 0% RT rating and star Tim Roth asked the people behind the film "Where is all the corruption in the script?"