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TIL Bob Ross was missing a finger due to a woodworking accident in his youth. In The Joy of Painting, he hid it by holding his palette in the hand with the missing finger.

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grbL TIL that there is a theory called “The Phantom Time Hypothesis” in which it is stated that the years from 614 to 911 AD didn’t actually exist and where faked by Roman Emperor Otto III so he could reign in the year 1000 AD.
a8gDJ TIL that domestic cats kill 1.3 - 4.0 billion birds and 6.3 - 22.3 billion mammals annually in the United States.
KOKya TIL that Tara, a tabby cat, won the 2015 SPCA Los Angeles’s annual national 'Hero Dog Award' for tackling a dog attacking a child.
6EdLQ TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s English accent has neutralized over the years, but he works to maintain his Austrian-influenced accent because it’s part of his professional image
wLy56 TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.