› added 1 year ago

54

TIL that Edvard Munch's 1895 painting "Vampire" is actually called "Love and Pain" and that it was never meant to depict a vampire. Originally six copies of the painting were made, but to date only five are accounted for.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kJwwe TIL the city of New Bern, North Carolina uses almost the same flag as the city of Bern, Switzerland, except that its bear does not have a red penis.
eNWE TIL Ant Man made his Marvel debut before Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor and Iron-Man.
VMpBm TIL of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer who agreed to donate his body to science prior to his execution in 1993. Jernigan’s body was encased, frozen, and cut into 1,851 slices. Images of those cuts are now used by medical students and radiologists as a human anatomy correlate for CT and MRI images.
Q5Bd TIL Roughly 114 prizes worth $1 million or more went unclaimed in 2015. In fact, about $2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed every year.
kOyOW TIL that Americans spend around $72B in lottery tickets every year, with the chances of winning being less likely than getting attacked by a shark, being killed by a vending machine, being elected president, being struck by lightning, coming down with the plague, or being killed by a falling coconut