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What’s blue and smells like red paint?

by cringeyjokesman September 3, 2022, 12:00 pm

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Decoratively coloured walls are helping archaeologists paint a picture of this 2,000-year-old Roman temple

by HistoryBuff August 25, 2022, 2:56 am

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TIL: The specific reason is currently not known, but R. funebris is attracted to recently painted surfaces and can be found resting on the paint.

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 4:06 pm

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TIL that members of Black Sabbath almost killed their drummer Bill Ward, by painting him in gold paint and lacquer when he passed out after a night of drinking.

by whatilearned July 22, 2022, 2:30 pm

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TIL that the richest sports league in the entire world, the NFL, has revenues about the same as Sherwin-Williams paint stores.

by whatilearned July 13, 2022, 12:56 pm

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TIL of Sijctghen, a 17th-century duck who laid over 100 eggs a year. In 1647, the Dutch Golden Age artist Aelbert Cuyp was commissioned to paint her portrait. Sijctghen died in October 1650, at the age of 23.

by whatilearned July 12, 2022, 4:20 pm

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TIL that the red-yellow-blue primary paint color system taught in elementary schools is just a corruption of the actual best primary paint color system, cyan-magenta-yellow, and that they are the opposites of the RGB light primary colors, due to additive and subtractive color.

by whatilearned July 9, 2022, 6:49 pm

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TIL the white face paint worn by geisha’s and samurai in ancient was lead based and lead can be detected in their bones.

by whatilearned May 29, 2022, 7:37 pm

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TIL The White House was painted with white lead paint in 1818

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 12:31 am

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People are so sensitive these days, now I can’t even say “black paint”.

by cringeyjokesman May 23, 2022, 2:07 am

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TIL A young Leonardo Da Vinci was told to paint an angel next to his teacher’s angel in a painting, his teacher was so embarrassed by how much better Da Vinci’s angel was that he quit painting forever.

by whatilearned May 14, 2022, 1:03 am

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okay class, today we are going to finger paint

by CopyPastaArchive May 13, 2022, 5:44 am

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