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TIL that Bob Ross worked as a carpenter to support himself, during which time he lost his left index finger in an accident, an injury he later hid from viewers most of the time with his paint palette.
N7WGN
Today I Learned that there will be a Red Nova in our skies in 2022. This will be the first Nova we can see with the naked eye in decades.
KOxZ9
TIL that the Soviet Union built their own Space Shuttle in secret. In November of 1988, they revealed and launched The Buran for it’s one and only flight successfully. Unlike the US Space Shuttles, this space craft was fully autonomous, had ejection seats, and was able to carry 30 tons.
9r5m
TIL Bill Gates once unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes into a crowd at a tech conference. Displaying the need to eradicate malaria, he explained to the crowd “there is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
VBo4
TIL that the most successful pirate captain was a Chinese prostitute controlling 1,500 vessels and having 80,000 sailors working for her.