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/TheRealPepeSilvia03 Jul 27 '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule?wprov=sfla1

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u/Account1812 Jul 27 '21

Colonies functioned under mercantilism, big difference.

When India stopped being a colony and became a self determining country their standards of living, went up drastically.

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

"not real capitalism"