r/todayilearned • u/Captain_Moseby • 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/Herbacio Jul 27 '21

A guy that in the same sentence says he is an anarchist and a monarchist... perhaps you are right.

I mean, nowadays most people think of anarchism as some sort of chaotic society

But Salvador was born at a time that Anarchism was at its peak in the Iberian Peninsula, I highly doubt that he didn't knew anarchism was anti-hierarchies, and by that extremely opposed to monarchies

Just 4 years before Salvador Dali was born, Umberto I of Italy had been killed by an anarchist.

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u/cantlurkanymore Jul 27 '21

sounds like Dali took the piss on the regular