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TIL Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, was openly anti-Irish, advocating for mandatory registration of all Irish people in the UK with local authorities. He was assassinated by the IRA in 1975 by point-blank gunshot to the head.

by whatilearned June 17, 2022, 9:47 am

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TIL That Harold Ross — co-founder and editor of The New Yorker magazine — dropped out of school at 13. He edited every issue of the magazine from the first until his death—a total of 1,399 issues.

by whatilearned April 28, 2022, 1:33 am

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If Mr. Rogers was wind, Steve Irwin is water, and Bob Ross was earth, who would be fire?

by QuestionGuy April 25, 2022, 6:24 pm

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TIL Ross Edgley Swam 1,780 miles (2,860 km) all the way around Great Britain in 157 days

by whatilearned March 28, 2022, 12:55 am

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Ross Lynch was absolutely goated with the sauce

by CopyPastaArchive March 4, 2022, 11:12 am

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TIL that Andy Warhol was an unabashed fan of “The Love Boat”, and his diaries record a meeting to score a guest spot. He appeared as himself on the 200th Episode, costarring with Andy Griffith, Milton Berle, Cloris Leachman, Tom Bosley and Marion Ross.

by whatilearned February 8, 2022, 3:32 pm

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TIL that Fort Ross, built on the coast of California just north of San Francisco, was the southernmost Russian settlement in colonial North America from 1812 to 1841.

by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 7:54 am

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TIL Alvin and the Chipmunks, three singing chipmunks created and voiced by Ross Bagdasarian, were named, as an inside joke, after executives at Liberty Records, which put out their productions. Alvin was named after Al Bennett, Simon after Si Waronker, and Theodore after Ted Keep.

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 2:42 pm

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TIL of William Lewis Moore, a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality member who was gunned down in Keener, Alabama, during a lone protest march from Chattanooga, TN to Jackson, MS, where he intended to deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett, supporting civil rights.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 4:58 am

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TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US

by whatilearned November 21, 2021, 12:30 am

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I was in the Post Office queue yesterday when Diana Ross tried to push in.

by cringeyjokesman November 13, 2021, 11:50 am

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What does Bob Ross call his children?

by cringeyjokesman October 7, 2021, 4:55 am

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