🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

Bob Ross had to take up carpentry to make ends meet, and during this period he had an accident that resulted in the loss of his left index finger. He usually kept this injury hidden from viewers by holding his paint palette in front of it.

•1 min read


Fun Fact:

Bob Ross had to take up carpentry to make ends meet, and during this period he had an accident that resulted in the loss of his left index finger. He usually kept this injury hidden from viewers by holding his paint palette in front of it.

Source favicon

Source

goodhousekeeping.com

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

James Doohan, who portrayed Scotty on Star Trek, was hit by bullets from his own side during the D-Day invasion at Juno Beach. This resulted in him losing a finger, which was usually concealed with camera angles when he was shooting Star Trek 21 years later.

Read →

Willie O Ree, the first African American to take the ice in the NHL, had been blind in one eye since he was 18, when a puck ricocheted off his face. He kept this a secret throughout his 21-year career.

Read →

About retired South Korean boxer Byun Jung-il who lost his bantam weight match at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Upset by the loss he refused to leave the ring for over an hour to the point that officials turned out the lights in the auditorium until he left.

Read →

That in 2002 a Montana man named Jack Ass sued MTV for $10 million, claiming that the show was plagiarizing his name. Jack Ass, whose birth name was Bob Craft, changed his name in 1997 to raise awareness for drunk driving, after his brother and friend both died in a car accident.

Read →

of Israel Keyes, a serial killer who had no preferred victim type and never killed in the same area twice. For one murder, he flew to Chicago and rented a car to get to Vermont, then used a murder kit he’d hidden two years earlier. When shopping, he kept his phone off and only paid in cash.

Read →

Martin Goodman and his wife, the founders of Marvel Comics, had tickets to board the Hindenburg for their return trip from Europe after their honeymoon in 1937, but were unable to get seats together. As a result, they decided to take an alternative form of transportation, thus avoiding the Hindenburg disaster.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts