Post * yKPV — Curious Curator

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TIL Picasso drew a sketch on the back of every check he wrote to pay a bill, knowing that almost everyone would save the check without cashing it because the picture made the check worth more than face value.

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e0pM6 TIL Prince used a picture of Dave Chappelle dressed as him on the cover of his 2013 album, "Breakfast Can Wait" after he performed in a sketch making fun of Prince

a89vM TIL I learned that in 2001, a New York couple got married on the deck of the Titanic, in a submarine. They faced criticism that their stunt was in "bad taste."

yQoAl TIL that the mysterious baroque painter Johannes Gumpp is known to have painted only one self portrait which also happens to be a triple self portrait in which he appears from behind painting his own face reflected in a mirror.

Vy80 TIL the founder of Domino’s Pizza met his wife while delivering pizza. On Valentine’s Day after their second date, he gave her a heart-shaped pizza.

6Wew TIL: Some older volumes of the Looney Tunes which featured racism were released uncensored “because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed.”