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TIL Bob Ross served in the military and vowed never to scream again.

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J1aXm TIL in order to prevent certain legal instruments from operating in perpetuity, a Royal Lives Clause may be written into a contract which provides a definite but extended period of time usually tied to twenty-one years past the death of last living descendent of the current British monarch.
Oo7G7 TIL that Stiga, which I only knew as a Sweden table tennis products company, is actually multinational company headquartered in Italy which mainly manufactures gardening tools
nYJd TIL that pencil is etymologically related to penis, but not pen
oP08 TIL that the most powerful pirate in history was Ching Shih, a Chinese woman that commanded the Red Flag Fleet, which the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty were unable to defeat. She also instituted a Pirate Code.
KOA0B TIL the original Dungeons & Dragons contained references to "hobbits" but those were removed when J.R.R. Tolkien's estate complained that he held the copyright to the creatures. They were later renamed "halflings" in D&D.