PHact or PHib ?
Dutch artist, Vincent van Gogh did not cut his ear off as previously thought. in recent studies of van Gogh’s “Sunflower” paintings, art historians have discovered sunflower pollen mixed into the artists pigments along with nostril mucus (a.k.a. snot), suggesting the artist’s extreme allergy to the botanical weed. Evidence in the artist’s studio points to the artist forcefully sneezing his ear off by holding the sneeze in his nose. Medically this is known to have happened throughout the Netherland region in the late nineteenth century. He did, however, mail his blown off ear to his girlfriend. That part of the story is true.
PHact or PHib ? You decide.
Charles Shultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strips, was a secret musical composer. Whenever he drew the child prodigy, Schroeder, at his piano, Shultz drew a small puzzle piece of his own musical composition in hopes that it would be played by some of his talented fans.
Over a 40 year span, Schultz completed a Piano Concerto hiding in plain sight.
The Chinese born pianist, Lang Lang, discovered this breathtaking detail by piecing together said comics in chronological order, and will perform Shultz’ masterpiece this coming holiday season at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Tickets are on sale now.
PHact or PHib ? You decide.
Schultz Images are copyrighted by Peanuts Holdings LLC
Renowned comic artist Rube Goldberg, famous for his contraption comics, was unable to attend the birth of his own child.
Goldberg loved his comic inventions of complicated machines performing menial tasks so much that he had a few installed in and around his New York home during the late 1910s.
On a cold winter day, February 8, 1920, Rube’s wife, Irma, went into labor with their second son, Thomas. The doctor and midwife were already at the house, but when Mr. Goldberg frantically arrived in his automobile, his contraption attached to the garage door took so long to open that it wouldn’t let him into his own home.
With 11 different contraptions attached to the garage, including a helium balloon, a duck, and a water pistol, the door finally opened, just in time for Rube to discover that Thomas had already been born.
Rube didn’t think to use the front door at that time because the machine designed to put a key into the keyhole had a chicken in it, and the poor hen had frozen to death in the frigid temperature outside.
Rube and Irma never had any more children after that.
There simply wasn’t any room left in the house for another one.
PHact or PHib ? You decide.
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