Turns out cows may have beauty and brains.

If lizards had legs, they'd kick you.
(they do and they would)

Loons feed mainly on fish, crustaceans, and insects, which you could say are their heated rivals.

Over a third of Frida Kahlo's paintings were self-portraits.

Although her paintings often mixed fantasy with realism, she said, "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

Of animal skeletons she collected, O'Keeffe said:

“To me they are as beautiful as anything I know… . The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert.”

While other painters at the time found sunflowers slightly coarse and unrefined, Van Gogh championed them in his paintings.

After his death, friends brought sunflowers to his funeral.

During his lifetime, Claude Monet painted more than 250 water lilies paintings, seemingly never stopping to say, “Enough. Enough for now.”

Florida upside down kind of looks like the Grinch.

Who knew the 27th state, consisting of mostly geologically young, low-lying plains, had such strong feelings about Christmas?