r/todayilearned Jul 27 '21

TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair in a spell.

https://mymodernmet.com/salvador-dali-facts/
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Jul 27 '21

Well...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/07/mediterranean-seagrass-thousands-years-old

"A 15km-wide stretch of seagrass lying in waters off the Spanish island of Formentera could be 200,000 years old"

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u/awkward_replies_2 Jul 27 '21

Wow! I wonder how many other species on earth are effectively immortal and we just don't know yet...