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TIL Bob Ross donated all of the paintings from the TV shows to PBS stations across the country

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GYo1 TIL In 2007, an unmanned yacht was discoverd drifting off the coast of Australia. The engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew were not on board.
R7E9a TIL After WWII, Messerschmitt developed microcars when the company was forbidden from manufacturing aircraft. Its KR200 set 22 international speed records for three-wheeled vehicles under 250cc during its 24-hour at the Hockenheimring in 1955.
yQRlX TIL if your car turn signal clicking sound is faster than usual, it is telling you that one if your turn signal bulb 💡 is out. 🤯
rpEM TIL: Lindsey Stirling was told on national TV that she was ultimately unmarketable, and that her violin and dance routine couldn’t fill a theater in Vegas
BreBK Today I learned all Navel Oranges are genetically identical, the trees originally grafted in the 1800's from one mutant branch on a tree in a monastery in Brazil. The mutation that made it seedless just happened to cause a smaller conjoined twin to grow on one end, the "navel".