Today I Learned …

Bob Ross, the painter with the famously frizzy hair, didn’t come by his ‘do naturally. It was a perm. Before his painting show took off, Ross was quite poor, and at that time, it cost less for him to get his hair permed than to get it cut. By the time he was making big bucks from the show and could afford a nicer haircut, his “look” had become familiar to his audience, and the show’s producers made Ross continue to get his hair permed rather than cut.