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TIL Schizophrenic Victorian era painter Louis Wain is famous today because the changes over time of his anthropomorphic paintings of cats show the gradual degradation of his condition as his schizophrenia worsened with time.

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v1X1R TIL Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum (from Jack and the Beanstalk) is actually a phrase in Old Gaelic that means “Behold, I see food. It is good to eat and sufficient for my hunger”. So when the Giant sees Jack, he figuratively says “God you look good enough to eat, get in mah belly”.
XdwR TIL that Frank Sinatra always carried 10 dimes after once fearing he would run out of change while talking on a payphone with his son’s kidnappers. He was even buried with them in his pocket.
j9n TIL there was an episode of Whose Line is it Anyways where Drew Cary handed out $100 bills to the performers instead of points.
VB64m TIL George Lucas is married to Mellody Hobson. Of her many accolades she was chairman of Starbucks from 2021-2024, chairman of DreamWorks animation from 2004-2016, and one of the current owners of the Denver Broncos. She is African American, 25 years his junior, and they have been married since 2013
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