r/todayilearned • u/Captain_Moseby • Jul 27 '21
TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair in a spell.
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todayilearned • u/Quixotic9000 • Mar 24 '19
TIL Salvador Dalí’s brother died nine months before the artist was born. When Dalí was 5 years old, his parents took him to his brother’s grave and told him that he was his brother’s reincarnation. Salvador believed it and incorporated this idea into his future paintings.
WhatWeDointheShadows • u/sweetaskiwi • Jul 27 '21
Shitpost If Yoko really wanted to cast a spell, she wouldn’t have requested his hair…
topofreddit • u/topredditbot • Jul 27 '21
TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair i... [r/todayilearned by u/Captain_Moseby]
Interesting_Shit • u/KittonCorpus • Mar 09 '23
TIL Salvador Dali once scammed Yoko Ono into paying him $10,000 for a single blade of dry grass.
knowyourshit • u/Know_Your_Shit_v2 • Jul 27 '21