Bob Ross filmed every single ‘The Joy of Painting’ episode for free. He could shoot a 13-episode season in less than a week, and his income came from selling his own line of painting supplies and teaching classes.  (, , )

London has an annual conference for things that are really boring. The Boring Conference celebrates subjects that are considered mundane, ordinary, trivial, or pointless, but when examined more closely can be deeply fascinating. In the past, speakers have discussed sneezing, toast, vending machine sounds, the features of the Yamaha PSR-175 Portatune keyboard, and the Comic Sans font.  (, )