› added 2 years ago

49

TIL that Van Gogh painted 5 different canvases featuring sunflowers, chose the sunflower because it best expressed "gratitude" and used only three shades of yellow to create the entire painting.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

0mJA Today I Learned that a programmer that had previously worked for NASA, testified under oath that voting machines can be manipulated by the software he helped develop.
P1QEw TIL that pistachios are prone to spontaneous combustion and any mass transport requires strict precautions.
ADPZn TIL Elephants are known to take a great interest in the bones of their deceased and to mourn for dead relatives and Magpies have been observed burying their dead under twigs of grass
ynoM TIL there is a triangle over the great lakes that has more disappearances than the Bermuda triangle.
M1e7 TIL Thomas Jefferson and John Adams once traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace. While there, they took a knife to one of Shakespeare’s chairs so they could take home some wood chips as souvenirs.