The Odd Footnote

Forgotten stories. Strange facts. Unexpected twists.
History, science, people & the world's hidden curiosities.
The world is weirder than you think.

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Van Gogh painted 74 pictures during his last 70 days.

He had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, in 1890. In that short stretch he painted fields, houses, gardens and people at a pace averaging more than one picture a day.

One of the best-known works from that period is Wheatfield with Crows. It's often called his last painting. But the Van Gogh Museum says he painted other works afterward, and Tree Roots is a more likely candidate.

An extraordinary final summer. No need to invent a final brushstroke.

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@JamesAFurey One student deserves help. The other 29 deserve an education.

A good school should be able to do both.

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@vidxn_ We were told education was the ticket to a better life. Now people have master’s degrees, student loans, and three roommates.

At least the diploma looks nice on the wall.

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@TWOTIMESABITCH My favorite kind of conversation starts with ancient Rome, somehow ends with the price of eggs, and nobody remembers how we got there.

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@RobertGreene I read The Laws of Human Nature, and it genuinely changed how I observe people, including myself. Your work has a way of making you question things you once took for granted. Thank you for that.

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@RuthSummie Sometimes healing isn’t getting your old life back. It’s realizing you can build a good one without it.

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@SoyDaniloDiaz Antes eso se llamaba vivir tranquilo. Ahora parece que estamos describiendo la vida de un millonario.

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@ahmstephen_ At this point, a driver’s license should come with a crystal ball. The turn signals are apparently just decorative.

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@DavidWolfe Copper killing bacteria is science. Rockefeller secretly ordering every hospital to remove doorknobs sounds like a deleted Scooby-Doo episode.

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@misatomaxxing @_1ucy_a Somewhere in that kitchen, a fork is watching this happen and feeling completely neglected.

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@DearS_o_n You can build a career, hit the gym, have your life together, and still want someone to share pizza with on a Friday night. That’s not weakness. That’s being human.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE The wildest part is that an Instagram photo helped scientists discover it.

Imagine accidentally contributing to botany while trying to get a good vacation pic.

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@JasonWilde108 The man spent his life searching for immortality, then supposedly got buried somewhere no one could find him.

He failed to live forever, but somehow became a 4,000-year-old missing persons case.

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@mwoods357 Aang rides a flying bison, bends air, and talks to his past lives, but apparently the hardest thing to imagine is an Asian kid with light skin.

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@BigfootRapedMe Bro just got threatened by a full-time harassment department with unlimited PTO.

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@Romans_12_15 階段しかない建物では、車椅子の人が困る。でもエレベーターがあれば、ベビーカーを押す親も、重い荷物を持つ人も助かる。

バリアフリーって、結局みんなのためなんですよね。

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@andreajordan66 After two years, that first homemade meal is going to taste like a Michelin-star dinner. You’ve earned every bite. Congrats!

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@vladtenev Imagine building an AI that can solve humanity’s biggest problems, then asking it how to quit smoking.

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@carolinerenard_ The most dangerous place in America is apparently the three feet immediately after an escalator.

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@ruinsunflower We need a day between Sunday and Monday called Not Yet.