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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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awJ89 TIL that the first nuclear powered satellite in space failed after just 43 days and it will stay in orbit for 3-4000 years. There are also more than 30 Russian nuclear powered satellites in space currently.
e0xMn TIL the recently opened ancient Egyptian sarcophagus of Mer-Neith-it-es dates back to around 600 BC. The Pyramids of Giza date back to around 2600 BC, so the pyramids in the time of Mer-Neith-it-es would be as old as Jesus is to us. Ancient Egyptians may have considered the pyramids as ancient.
OG9BR TIL that Abraham Lincoln was so convinced that he was going to lose the election of 1864 that he asked Frederick Douglass to lead scouts into the South to free as many slaves as possible before the new president took office.
kOA8W TIL Chimpanzees have entered their own Stone Age: they have been using stone tools for generations.
jNgRQ TIL that a "dead" Egyptian snail was put on display in a British museum. Four years later, the "dead" snail awoke.