31: The genius of cheese slices
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Vincent Van Gogh's Ear
Troy was an early it's an early 20th century prankster and he would go around and perform whimsical pranks in order to to baffle and confuse people. He removed all of the light bulbs from a hotel just when installed them all. In 1825 a painter in Washington DC received a letter saying that his wife was gravely ill. He traveled back home to Connecticut only to find that his wife had not only died but was already buried. So I can only assume that he found this to be traumatic and wanted to stop it from ever happening again. And we have a little label on it that said this is the ear which Vincent Van Gogh cut off and sent to his
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