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TIL that there are 70 full episodes of the Joy of Painting on the official Bob Ross YouTube channel.

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BrdNK TIL that, despite producing about 38 billion ballpoint pens each year, China had yet to acquire the technology to produce their own pen tips domestically until 2017.
OGMYe Today I learned more about the urban artists who passed away last year
O4oX TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
VvO4 TIL Stetson Kennedy inflitrated the KKK, learned their rituals and codewords,and provided these to the writers of the Superman program, which produced 16 episodes in which Superman fought the Klan, leading to a steep drop in recruitment.
POBn TIL that former NFL quarterback Todd Marinovich left the league due to his drug problems. He didn’t play football for the next eight years until he signed with the Arena Football League. He threw ten touchdowns in his first game back while withdrawing from heroin.