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

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l7xv5 TIL that the British grew a Great Hedge to prevent the smuggling of common salt from coastal regions in India to avoid paying the substantial "Salt Tax".
AkWn TIL Australian man Bill Morgan, after suffering a heart attack leaving him clinically dead for 14 minutes, won a car off a lottery ticket, then during a re-enactment won $250,000.
W10N TIL in 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” and it was made of smoked reindeer.
vEEj TIL that Timothy Leary, upon his arrival at prison in 1971, was given a battery of psychological tests designed to aid in placing inmates in jobs that were best suited to them. Leary himself had designed a few of them and used that knowledge to get a gardening assignment. He escaped shortly after.
awoXy TIL of the USS Mason, the only WWII destroyer with an all-black enlisted crew