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TIL Bob Ross’ “The Joy of Painting” had 31 seasons and 403 episodes

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RQw TIL that mints are not only given at the end of a meal in restaurants to help freshen your breath, but herbs like peppermint help settle nausea and upset stomach (i.e. from overeating).
PnRV TIL the color orange was named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as “yellow-red” (geoluread in Old English) or “red-yellow.”
KYQ1B TIL: Oregon had a "whites only" clause in its original state Constitution.
epppg TIL that between 1854 and 1921 in the US, over 250,000 children were transported on "Orphan Trains" to be adopted by new families; many found new homes, but, sadly, sometimes the "adoptions" were little more than auctions and the children pressed into forced farm labor.
8aOnZ TIL Arborglyph is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Derived from arbor ‘tree’; glyphein ‘to carve’. It was also mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the love-frenzied Orlando declares he will carve every tree in the Forest of Arden.