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TIL Bob Ross painted 3 copies of every piece of work on his show.

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wLgKY TIL that the Free French forces that liberated Paris in WW2 were pre-selected to be completely white, despite colored soldiers making up a majority of the Free French forces. Both the US and UK demanded their exclusion from the liberation.
Lk4ZV TIL that Madam C.J Walker was the first black woman to ever become a millionaire in America!
GWl7 TIL that in the 1960’s a woman lived together with a dolphin in a partially flooded house for 10 weeks as part of an experiment to teach it to speak. The lengthy experiment finally involved her masturbating the dolphin and tripping on LSD with it.
VM5AZ TIL a company once redirected all attempts to a non-registered domains to their own page, supposedly for profit. This also messed up with emails sent to non-existing domains for a while.
VMBnG TIL in the United States it is illegal for the government to have a gun database that ties a weapon directly to an owner. The Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 banned the government from ever instituting such a system. A national registry database can't be implemented.