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TIL that The Joy of Painting host Bob Ross developed his quick-painting technique in order to sell paintings inside of old Alaskan gold panning tins on his lunch break. - “I used to go home at lunch and do a couple while I had my sandwich. I’d take them back that afternoon and sell them.”

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WkXAN TIL Pamela Anderson’s appearance in the movie Borat was a major contributor to her divorce with Kid Rock as he felt it was disgusting she would volunteer to be in such a film.
JpW1 TIL that when Malcolm McDowell met Gene Kelly at a party several years later, the older star turned and walked away in disgust. Kelly was deeply upset about the way his signature from Singin’ in the Rain (1952) had been portrayed in A Clockwork Orange (1971).
EgAX TIL Jackie Kennedy undertook a historical renovation of the White House that sought to replace the cheap furniture bought by the Trumans with pieces of WH historical furniture. She famously asked the Eisenhowers to give back the Washington era China they had taken home after leaving office.
0d1wp TIL that they created Gwyneth Paltrow's head for Se7en but never used it. It was however used in the autopsy scene in Contagion.
1aaOr TIL that UK's Crown Estate has a total value is about $16.5 billion (Apr'16). This includes 263,000 farmed acres, half of the U.K.’s shoreline and almost all the seabed to the 12-mile territorial limit. Queen Elizabeth and family receive 15% of all the money, almost $400 million annually.