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The famous painter Pablo Picasso burned many of his paintings to stay warm when having financial troubles
 
Aerosmith's song "Walk This Way" was inspired by the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks spoof movie Young Frankenstein.
 
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
 
How old is the oldest ruling royal family? The current emperor of Japan, Akihito, claims to be the 125th descendent in his line.
 
Visit a waterfall at dusk and you may see moonbows—nighttime rainbows.

Simon Bolivar is the only person in the world to have two sovereign nations named after him: Bolivia and Venezuela (the country's full name is Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela).
 
There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
 
Why is bubble gum pink? When it was invented, pink was the only food dye on hand.
 
Bolivia is home to some of the world's most strangely named lakes (at least, for English speakers), including Titicaca and Poopo.
 
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Uses every letter in the alphabet.
 
The Plague of Justinian killed as many as 10,000 people a day at its peak in 541 before eventually migrating from the Byzantine Empire to Western Europe, where it became known as The Black Plague.
 
At the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, Walt Disney was head of the committee that organized the opening day ceremonies.
 
As soon as Citizen Kane was completed, Hearst’s estate offered RKO pictures $800,000 ($100,000 more than the picture cost to make) to destroy the film.
 
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
 
Although Charles Schulz loved drawing Charlie Brown and his pals, he hated the name Peanuts, which was chosen by United Features Syndicate despite his objections.
 
On the 2011 Czech Republic census, over 15,000 people listed their religion as "Jedi."
 
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z hence "Oz"
 
A yellow baseball (thought to be more visible to batters, fielders, and spectators) was tested in New York City at 1938 college game between Fordham and Columbia.
 
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