Today Is...Salvador Dalí Dies

He was best known mostly for the moustache, the painting with the melting clocks, the chuppa chups logo he designed and being as mad as a box of frogs but there was only one Salvador Dali, well two if you count his dead elder brother, the original Salvador Dali who died before his second birthday, nine months before the artist was born. His grief-stricken parents then went ahead and gave him his dead brother's name, because why let it go to waste?
His work was known for exploring fantasy and the subconscious and being thought-provoking and iconic but mostly for being very, very weird.
Yoko Ono asked him for a strand of hair from his moustache and he picked a blade of grass and put that into a fancy gift box and presented it to her though it wasn't really a gift and charged her $10,000 for it but she didn't complain, or if she did he never heard her because he was too busy chuckling on his way to the bank with her 10 grand.
He was very tight with my money, to get out of paying for things he would pay by cheque and draw a doodle on the back and as nobody wanted to cash in a cheque with an original Dali on it so they never, and aloha, another free meal.  
Much has been made of his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory, when he was asked by one art critic if it was an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time or maybe a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order he replied that actually, it was inspired by a lump of cheese on his table that had melted in the Sun.
When he showed up to deliver a lecture wearing an old-timey deep-sea diving suit, it was just him wearing a diving suit and the time he drove around with his car full of cauliflowers, it was just him in a car full of cauliflowers.
Something he never looked into was ladies reproductive bits, they scared him so for most of his marriage, the clocks were not the only droopy thing but while most artists find fame and fortune by dedicating themselves to their art with a singular mind and purpose, tirelessly exhausting themselves, he found just being weird and wearing a diving suit also got you the rewards his magnificent moustache deserved.