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TIL Salvador Dali once scammed Yoko Ono into paying him $10,000 for a single blade of dry grass. Yoko had offered to pay him that sum for just one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the piece of grass for the single hair because he believed Yoko Ono was a witch and might use it to cast a spell.

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