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TIL bob ross made an episode where he painted all in grey for a colorblind viewer

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RNk7 TIL the original ending of “Romeo Must Die” had Jet Li kissing Aaliyah but was re-filmed to where they shared a “tight hug” because, “Mainstream America, for the most part, gets uncomfortable with seeing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light.”
p1NA TIL: Hacker, Kevin Mitnick, spent eight months in solitary confinement after law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to “start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.”
GMej TIL that British banking giant HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), but there were no criminal charges and no one went to prison.
k5ed TIL that British sniper Matt Hughes managed to kill an enemy with a half-mile sniper shot which curved 56 feet(17 meters) in the air before hitting the target.
mxpMy TIL Mel Brooks' (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs) son is Max Brooks, author of World War Z