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5 Facts About the Color Purple

(via Mental Floss) Activist Byllye Avery once said that “purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that

(via Mental Floss) There is a truism in Hollywood that insists no one sets out to make a bad movie.

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(via Mental Floss) Los del Río’s “Macarena” became the second longest-running number one in Billboard history, shifted 14 million copies,

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(via Mental Floss) “Bladorthin the Grey” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Gandalf the Grey,” does it?

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(via Smithsonian) Having lived through Germany’s Nazi regime, Otl Aicher went on to pioneer democratic design

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(via Smithsonian) A lecturer at Catholic University discovered the rare costume wrapped in a trash bag in a drama department

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(via Smithsonian) The long-forgotten piece was likely a preparatory sketch for a huge stage curtain for the 1919 Russian ballet

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(via Listverse) Fans of musical theatre know that every show is an opportunity to fall in love with incredible characters,

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(via Smithsonian) Researchers deployed microbes to remove stains and grime from the marble sculptures in Florence’s Medici Chapels

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(via Mental Floss) Born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, Netherlands, Vincent van Gogh came to art relatively late, only

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(via Smithsonian) A controversial art collector claims that a depiction of wheat fields in Auvers is the work of the

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(via Atlas Obscura) The work is for the 90th anniversary in 2021, but the real party is still a decade