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Why Van Gogh ate his yellow paint

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Vincent van Gogh's desperate search for internal peace took incredibly strange, highly toxic turns. Believing that the bright yellow paint he used on canvases contained an actual essence of happiness, he would squeeze the chemically laden tubes directly into his mouth. Unsurprisingly, ingesting lead-based paint did absolutely nothing to cure his deep melancholy.

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