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TIL Out of the 403 episodes of “The Joy of Painting” with Bob Ross, 91% of them contain at least one happy tree and 2% of them contain bridges.

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N7D1M TIL despite the fact Cragslist brings in US$1 billion a year, the company has only 50 employees
l7Kb7 TIL Abraham Lincoln had strabismus, aka a “lazy eye”. His left eye was said to roll upwards when he was tired or exited.
Q6LL TIL that Harold Gillies is considered to be the father of plastic surgery; after the first world war he performed thousands of surgeries mostly for soldiers with facial injuries, usually from gunshot wounds
rRkvy TIL Eric Tigerstedt, the "Thomas Edison of Finland", was the first person to patent a "mobile phone", over a 100 years ago.
o1AK TIL during the Iraq-Iran War, the United States shot down an Iranian civilian plane, killing 260 people.